INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instrument of execution mean? 

• INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION (noun)
  The noun INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION has 1 sense:

1. an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person

  Familiarity information: INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION (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)