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Strappado   Listen
noun
Strappado  n.  (pl. strappadoes)  A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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