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Garrote

noun
1.
An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation.  Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, iron collar.



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... that were to kindle his funeral pile lying around him, Valverde, holding up the cross, besought him to embrace it and be baptized, promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott


Words linked to "Garrote" :   throttle, strangle, strangulate, instrument of execution, iron collar, garotte


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