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Garrote   Listen
noun
Garrote  n.  
1.
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct.
2.
The instrument by means of which the garrote (1) is inflicted.
Synonyms: garrote, garotte, iron collar.
3.
Hence: A short length of rope or other instrument used to strangle a person.





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"Garrote" Quotes from Famous Books



... the room for some escape. "Know just how you feel," he muttered, "Know just how you feel. Horrible stuff. Swaddled in it here. Simply swaddled in it. Strangled." He cleared his throat as though to disembarrass it of a garrote. "But, uh, ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... absolutely false. He was found guilty and condemned to death by burning; but at the last moment, when he was chained to a stake and the torch was ready to be applied, the priest in attendance promised that the sentence should be commuted to the easier death by the garrote if he would renounce his idolatry and embrace Christianity. He assented to the proposal, and immediately the modified sentence was carried out. It is not necessary to add that the execution of the Peruvian monarch was the darkest stain on the pages of Spanish ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... deserters, Union deserters. They were Negroes and Arabs. They were the ruined of fortune, now soldiers of fortune. They were pirates and highwaymen. They were gold hunters, gamblers, swindlers. They were fugitives from the noose, from the garrote, from the guillotine. But they were all right willing desperadoes. And there was not a softened feature on a man of the troop. Only a tigerish ferocity could lead them, could ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... the fog, and at length, finds himself upon a little iron bridge, one of the score or more in the heart of the city, under which the small tortuous river flows. He leans on the rail and gasps, for here the mist has concentrated, lying like a foot-pad to garrote such of the Three Thousand as creep that way. The iron bridge guys rattle to the strain of his cough, a mocking phthisical rattle, seeming to say to him: "Clickety-clack! just a little rusty cold, sir—but not from our river. Litmus paper all ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry


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


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