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INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("instrument of execution" is a kind of...):
instrument (a device that requires skill for proper use)
Meronyms (parts of "instrument of execution"):
scaffold (a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "instrument of execution"):
chair; death chair; electric chair; hot seat (an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person)
gallows (an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging)
garotte; garrote; garrotte; iron collar (an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation)
death chamber; gas chamber (instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals)
guillotine (instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people)
stake (instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning)
