Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name)
5. weapons
6. edged weapons

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Tools and Equipment
5. equipment
6. equipment by context
7. equipment for corporal punishment

Anotations

Scope note:

Instruments for execution by beheading. They operate by means of a heavy blade falling between two grooved posts. These were used particularly during the French Revolution, but also in Belgium, Germany, Sweden and some Swiss cantons.