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Garrotting
Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act,
garroter
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind with a view to strangle and rob him
Garrot
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage in order to compress the arteries of a limb
Garrote
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw...
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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