Definitions
strangle with an iron collar
Word origin
From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“[…] 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,”
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01“Strangle with a collar”7 letters
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