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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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