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noun:
- a way of execution previously practiced in Spain, which a tightened metal collar can be used to strangle or break the throat of a condemned person.
- The iron collar utilized for such an execution.
- Strangulation, particularly in purchase to rob.
- A cord or cable utilized for strangling.
- an iron collar previously used in Spain to execute folks by strangulation
- anything, specifically a cord or line, employed for strangulation
- A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar attached to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct.
- The instrument in the shape of which the garrote{1} is inflicted.
- a quick length of rope or other instrument regularly strangle people.
- A mode of money punishment practised in Spain and Portugal, previously by simple strangulation.
- The instrument by means of which this punishment is inflicted.
- Strangulation at all used in imitation of this garrote, and particularly as a method of burglary. See garroting.
- a musical instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
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verb-transitive:
- To strangle to rob.
- To strangle using the garrote; for this reason, to seize because of the throat, from at the rear of, with a view to strangle and rob.
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verb:
- to perform by strangulation
- to kill utilizing a garrote
- strangle with an iron collar
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others:
- To Place to death by means of the garrote.—2. To strangle so as to render insensible or helpless, usually for the purpose of robbery. See garroting.
- To cheat in card-playing by hiding specific cards behind the neck: a mode of cheating practised among card-sharpers.
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