With reference to the punishment of drowning in a sack. the sack n. the punishment (awarded in ancient Rome to a parricide) of being sewn in a sack…
An execution carried out by drowning, esp. a mass execution, as those conducted at Nantes in revolutionary France in 1793–4. Frequently in plural…
Execution by drowning; an instance of this.
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