garrote

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.

   “I have twenty times done that which by Busnée law should have brought me to the filimicha (gallows), yet my neck has never yet been squeezed by the cold garrote.”

2. isim Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.

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

3. fiil To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.

   “I have not a sou, and for want of a few crowns I shall be garroted within a month unless I can escape, though, as I told you before, I have done nothing, a mere bagatelle; but the worst crimes in Spain are poverty and misery.”

4. fiil To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.

   ““And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.””