单词 | garrotte |
释义 | garrottegarroten.ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > loading > one who > equipment used garrotte1629 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 236 Thou hast..rich furniture for thy horses, siluer Garrotes or Wrests to packe vp and fasten thy Sumpter vpon thy strong backed Mules. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 82 There is another kind of torture, employed by the Spanish Inquisition..When the patient is placed in this apparatus, his arms, thighs, and ankles are made fast to the sides by means of small cords, which being tightened by means of garrots, or rackpins (called by some the Spanish windlass), in the same manner precisely as carriers tighten the ropes that fasten down the loads on their carts, cut into the very bone.] 2. The former Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation; the apparatus for inflicting this.The cord was originally twisted by means of a garrote or packing-stick (see sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > garrotting garrotte1622 garrotting1890 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > garrotting > the garrotte bowstring1603 garrotte1622 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 266 Throwing a cord about his necke, making vse of one of the corners of the Chayre, he gaue him the Garrote, wherewith he was strangled to death. 1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 54 The man was hanged and quartered, the woman strangled by the garrote. 1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) viii. 210 I have no hesitation in pronouncing death by the garrot, at once the most manly, and the least offensive to the eye. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 89 He next went to Cuba..was wounded and captured, but escaped the garrote to follow Walker to Nicaragua. 3. Highway robbery performed by throttling the victim. to tip the garrotte: (slang) to use this method of robbery. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > attacking and robbing mugging1846 garrotte1852 garrotting1858 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (intransitive)] > attack and rob to tip the garrotte1852 1852 Ann. Reg. 78 The crime of robbery by means of suffocation, and known as ‘garotte’, from the Spanish mode of execution, has become exceedingly common. 1856 Punch 31 194 The old ‘Stand and deliver!’ 's all rot; Three to one; hit behind; with a wipe round the jowl, boys, That's the ticket—and Vive la Garotte!..Let them cly-fake, we'll tip the Garotte. 4. attributive, as garrotte-man, garrotte-robbery. ΚΠ 1862 H. Mayhew & J. Binny Criminal Prisons of London 5 If India has its Thugs, London has its garotte men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garrottegarrotev. 1. transitive. To execute by means of the garrotte. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > garrotte scrag1823 garrotte1851 1851 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 418 Lopez..was publicly garroted at Havannah on the 1st of September. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 21 Nov. 4/3 The rule now is to garrotte culprits within the walls of the prison. 2. a. To throttle (a person) in order to rob him. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > attack and rob huff1832 garrotte1858 mug1864 to jack up1965 steam1987 1858 [implied in: R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xvi. 54 She pursued the even tenour of her way apparently indifferent to everything—even to a garotting. (at garrotting n. 2)]. 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London 201 A ruffian, committed for trial for garotting and nearly murdering a gentleman. 1890 Spectator 30 Aug. 263/2 Young ruffians of the class who garotte their schoolfellows to rob them. 1896 Boston (Mass.) Herald 16 Feb. 11/8 A man was garrotted last night at Bayard Street, New York. b. transferred and figurative. To strangle. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by strangling aworryc885 achokeOE astrangle1297 strangle13.. worry14.. choke1303 weary1340 gnarec1380 athroatc1400 enstranglec1400 gagc1440 throttlec1450 estrangle1483 stifle1548 snarl1563 thrapple1570 quackle1622 bowstring1803 scrag1823 strangulate1846 mug1866 to screw a person's neck1872 garrotte1878 guzzle1885 to screw an animal's neck1888 1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home viii. 184 This happens when the loop..has slipped and seized the creature just at the gills. It then garottes the fish. 1893 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 38 Commercialism, whose name is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco, and garrotes the streams with the girder. Derivatives gaˈrrotted adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [adjective] > garrotted garrotted1860 1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac ix. 247 Garotted malefactors sitting bolt upright in the high wooden chairs they had just been executed in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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