guillotiner
French Revolution executioner
A guillotiner is one who operates a guillotine—historically, an executioner who carried out beheadings during the French Revolution and after.
The term extends to anyone who uses a guillotine-style cutting device, such as the paper cutters found in print shops: The guillotiner trimmed the stack of flyers to size.
One who kills condemned
- beheadingRemoval of head
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
Reign of Terror · public execution · death sentence · severing · decapitation · headsman · capital punishment · drop
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- JacobinsFrench revolutionary faction
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- TerrorHistorical period designation
- aristocratsHereditary ruling class
Marie Antoinette · Louis XVI · tribunals · sans-culottes · counterrevolutionaries · traitors · enemies of the state · committee
executioner
One who kills condemned
condemned · Reign of Terror · public execution · death sentence · severing · decapitation · headsman · capital punishment · drop · basket
French Revolution
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- JacobinsFrench revolutionary faction
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- TerrorHistorical period designation
Marie Antoinette · Louis XVI · aristocrats · tribunals · sans-culottes · counterrevolutionaries · traitors · enemies of the state · committee · denouncement
cutoff
Point of termination
chop · slash · eliminate · dispatch · finish off · axe · cut short · kill · destroy · decisive action
- guillotine chokeSubmission hold targeting throat