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(executioner's) block

CEDICT

  1. (literary) metal executioner's block (used in the ancient punishment of cutting somebody in half)
  2. (literary) to behead; to decapitate
  3. metal executioner's block (used in the ancient punishment of cutting somebody in half)
  4. to behead; to decapitate

Wiktionary

古代刑具一種組件腰斬受刑人鐵砧

重編國語辭典

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