Guillotine
apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads).
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A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the executioner releases the rack, it falls and the blade cuts the convict's head off.