garrotte

Noun

(plural garrottes)

an iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation
something, especially a cord or wire used for strangulation
The mob boss was known for executing his enemies with a garrotte of piano wire.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present garrottes, present participle garrotting, simple past and past participle garrotted)

Origin

See also: garrotté

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They speedily relapsed into crime; their numbers, as the years passed, became so great and their depredations so serious, especially in garrotte robberies, that a cry of indignation was raised against the system, which led to its arraignment before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1863.

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