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Garrotting
Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act, 1863 (26 & 27Vict. c. 44), the crimes
Garrot
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Garrote
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct
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garroter
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind with a view to strangle and rob him
Golden eye
Glaucionetta clangula found in Northern Europe Asia and America The American variety var Americana is larger Called whistler garrot gowdy pied widgeon whiteside curre and doucker Barrows golden eye of America Glaucionetta Islandica is less common
Choke, attempt to
to. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 21, and GARROTTING.
Whipping
s. 2 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885; and also for robbery with violence. See VAGRANT; GARROTTING. A method of corporal punishment formerly used in England and a few American States, consisting of inflicting long
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