Choking - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: chokingChoking
That chokes producing the feeling of strangulation...
Choke, attempt to
Choke, attempt to. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 21, and GARROTTING....
Choky, Chokee
Choky, Chokee, a chair, seat, guard, watch. The station of a guard or watchman. A place where an officer is stationed to receive tolls and customs, Indian....
Garrotting
Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act, 1863 (26 & 27Vict. c. 44), the crimes of robbery with violence, which is punishable by penal servitude under s. 23 of the Larceny Act, 1916, and choking, etc., with intent to commit any indictable offence, which is similarly punishable under s. 21 of the offences against the Person Act, 1861, are each of them punishable also by whipping, if the offender be a male....
Choak
See Choke...
Chock full
Quite full full to capacity choke full as chowder chock full of clams...
Choke
To render unable to breathe by filling pressing upon or squeezing the windpipe to stifle to suffocate to strangle...
Choke damp
See Carbonic acid under Carbonic...
Choke full
Full to the brim quite full chock full...
Choke pear
A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste and is swallowed with difficulty or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth...
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