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Garrot   Listen
noun
Garrot  n.  (Surg.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Garrot" Quotes from Famous Books



... which strongly commended it to the splenetic and the vindictive. For suppose you lay in wait for your enemy and beat or otherwise maltreated him: the chances were that he would either punish you himself or invoke the law to do it for him; while if you removed him by means of the garrot, the knife or the poisoned glass, no matter how discreetly the deed was done the hangman was pretty sure to get you sooner or later. But the gang—it was as safe as an epidemic! The fact was not lost upon the community. People in almost every station of life appreciated it ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson



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