"dry guillotine" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "As an alternative (and bloodless) punishment to the guillotine.",
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          "ref": "1989, Ralph Gibson, A Social History of French Catholicism, Routledge, page 52",
          "text": "Nor could they forget the 200-odd priests massacred in the Paris prisons in September 1792, [...] or the 118 who never came back from the dry guillotine that was French Guiana.",
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        "Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution."
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        "(historical, slang) Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution."
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        "(historical, slang) Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution."
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