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plural garrotes
an iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation quotations examples
The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote - an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation examples
third-person singular simple present garrotes, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted
(transitive) to execute by strangulation examples
(transitive) to kill using a garrote examples