garotte

garotte: \ \ [17] Garotte is widely used simply for ‘strangle’, but its strict application is to a former Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation or breaking the neck, in which a metal collar was screwed increasingly tight. It got its name from Spanish garrote, which originally meant ‘cudgel’: in earlier, less sophisticated or more impromptu versions of the execution, a cudgel or stick was inserted into a band around the neck and twisted round and round so as to tighten the band. The immediate source of garrote was no doubt Old French garrot, from an earlier guaroc ‘club, stick, rod for turning’, whose form suggests a Celtic origin.

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Garotte — Garotte, s.v.w. Garrotte … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
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Garotte — Ga|rọt|te usw.: ↑ Garrotte usw. * * * Gar|rọt|te, Garotte, die; , n [span. garrote] (früher): Halseisen, zur Vollstreckung der Todesstrafe (in Spanien), Würgschraube. Ga|rọt|te usw. ↑Garrotte usw … Universal-Lexikon
garotte — [17] Garotte is widely used simply for ‘strangle’, but its strict application is to a former Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation or breaking the neck, in which a metal collar was screwed increasingly tight. It got its name from… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
garotte — var. of GARROTTE. * * * garotte see garrotte … Useful english dictionary
garotte — I. noun see garrote I II. transitive verb see garrote II … New Collegiate Dictionary
garotte — garotter, n. /geuh rot , roht /, n., v.t., garotted, garotting. garrote. * * * … Universalium
Garotte — Ga|rot|te usw. vgl. ↑Garrotte usw … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
garotte — v. choke to death, strangle … English contemporary dictionary
garotte — verb &noun variant spelling of garrotte … English new terms dictionary

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