Meaning of garrote | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
   historical
2. Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.

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Examples

“[…] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.”

“The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,”

“The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.”

“The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.”

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