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strappado

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Definitions

  1. A torture method in which a bound person is hoisted by the wrists behind the back.

Word origin

From Italian strappato, from strappare (“to pull”).

Used in a sentence

  • What, vpon compulsion? No: were I at the Strappado, or all the Racks in the World, I would not tell you on compulsion.

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