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Garrotting

Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act,

Garrote

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw...

Garrot

A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage in order to compress the arteries of a limb

garroter

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind with a view to strangle and rob him

Golden eye

America The American variety var Americana is larger Called whistler garrot gowdy pied widgeon whiteside curre and doucker Barrows golden eye

Choke, attempt to

1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 21, and GARROTTING.

Whipping

Act, 1885; and also for robbery with violence. See VAGRANT; GARROTTING. A method of corporal punishment formerly used in England and

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