GARROTTE, GARROTE
\ɡˈaɹɒt], \ɡˈaɹɒt], \ɡ_ˈa_ɹ_ɒ_t]\
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A Spanish mode of strangling criminals with a cord placed over the neck and twisted tight by a stick: the brass collar afterwards used in strangling.
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To strangle by a brass collar tightened by a screw, whose point enters the spinal marrow: to suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob:-pr.p. garrotting, garroting; pa.p. garrotted, garroted.
By Daniel Lyons
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