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garrotte
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garrotte, garrote, garotte
1. a Spanish method of execution by strangulation or by breaking the neck
2. the device, usually an iron collar, used in such executions
3. Obsolete strangulation of one's victim while committing robbery


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Spikes, razor blades, cocaine, heroin and guitar string garrottes were uncovered at Frankland prison in Durham.
Weapons haul found in prison; Spikes, razor blades and drugs uncovered by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
For six months, they'd plotted and were equipped with knives, axes, garrottes, fake IDs, uniforms, false beards, a torch, nurses' hats.
MADMEN ON THE LOOSE; Mone and McCulloch's trail of carnage after ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Antonio Perez barely survived the repeated tightening of the ligatures and of the garrottes, pleading: 'Virgen soberana, Virgen de la Soledad, Senores que no se nada, ya estoi manco y tullido.
Segovia and Portugal in the seventeenth century by Cueto, Ronald / Portuguese Studies
 
 
 
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