Garrot(n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Garrot(n.) The European golden-eye.
Garrote(n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
Garrote(v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
Garroted(imp. & p. p.) of Garrote
Garroter(n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Garroting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrote
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