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Guillotine, is an instrument for beheading, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 849.Is a method of preventing obstruction by fixing times at which parts of Bill must be voted on, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler, p. 548.Is the most drastic method of curtailing debate in a legislature, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 410.In the House of commons, guillotine can be applied only after passing a motion for the purpose in the House. It is applied to the various stages of Bills and in designed to expedite their passage by means of a time table allotting a certain number of days to the different stages of the Bill and at the end of the allotted time the question under consideration is put without any further debate, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philips Laundry, p. 335.Which is a colloquial term, is technically known as 'allocation of time orders', Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and SC. Hawtrey...
Maiden
Maiden, A young unmarried woman. 2. (Scots Law) An instrument used to behead criminals. It was the proto type of the guillotine. Hence, 'to kiss the maiden was to be put to death.' H. Percy Smith, Glossary of Terms and Phrases 307 (1883), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.It is an instrument formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. It consisted of a broad piece of iron about a foot square, very sharp in the lower part, and loaded above with lead. At the time of execution it was pulled up to the top of a frame about eight feet high, with a grove on each side for it to slide in. the prisoner'' neck being fastened to a bar underneath, and the sign being given, the maiden was let and the sign being given, the maiden was let loose, and the head served from the body. The prototype of the guillotine....
Guillotine
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade which slides in vertical guides is raised by a cord and let fall upon the neck of the victim...
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