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▪ I. garrotte, garotte, n.|gəˈrɒt|
Also garrote, garrot.
[a. Sp. garrote (the form now prevailing being through Fr. vb. garrotter: see garrotte v.) = garrot (from 13th c.) stick, spec. packing-stick, etc.; of obscure origin: cf. garron2.]
†1. ‘A cudgell to winde a cord as carriers do to packe their wantels with’ (Minsheu). Obs. rare.
1629J. M[abbe] tr. Fonseca's Dev. Contempl. 236 Thou hast..rich furniture for thy horses, siluer Garrotes or Wrests to packe vp and fasten thy Sumpter vpon thy strong backed Mules. [1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 82 There is another kind of torture, employed by the Spanish Inquisition..When the patient is placed in this apparatus, his arms, thighs, and ankles are made fast to the sides by means of small cords, which being tightened by means of garrots, or rackpins (called by some the Spanish windlass), in the same manner precisely as carriers tighten the ropes that fasten down the loads on their carts, cut into the very bone.]
2. The Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation; the apparatus for inflicting this.
The cord was originally twisted by means of a garrote or packing-stick (see sense 1).
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 266 Throwing a cord about his necke, making vse of one of the corners of the Chayre, he gaue him the Garrote, wherewith he was strangled to death. 1832Southey Penins. War III. 54 The man was hanged and quartered, the woman strangled by the garrote. 1837Major Richardson Brit. Legion viii. (ed. 2) 210, I have no hesitation in pronouncing death by the garrot, at once the most manly, and the least offensive to the eye. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 89 He next went to Cuba..was wounded and captured, but escaped the garrote to follow Walker to Nicaragua.
3. Highway-robbery performed by throttling the victim. to tip the garrotte: (slang) to use this method of robbery.
1852Ann. Reg. 78 The crime of robbery by means of suffocation, and known as ‘garotte’, from the Spanish mode of execution, has become exceedingly common. 1856Punch XXXI. 194 The old ‘Stand and deliver!’ 's all rot; Three to one; hit behind; with a wipe round the jowl, boys, That's the ticket—and Vive la Garotte!..Let them cly-fake, we'll tip the Garotte.
4. attrib., as garrotte-man, garrotte-robbery.
1862Mayhew & Binny Crim. Pris. Lond. 5 If India has its Thugs, London has its garotte men.
▪ II. garrotte, garotte, v.|gəˈrɒt|
Also 9 gar(r)ote.
[ad. Sp. garrotear, f. garrote: see prec. The prevailing form is due to the equivalent F. garrotter.]
1. trans. To execute by means of the garrotte.
1851Gentl. Mag. Oct. 418 Lopez..was publicly garroted at Havannah on the 1st of September. 1894Westm. Gaz. 21 Nov. 4/3 The rule now is to garrotte culprits within the walls of the prison.
2. To throttle (a person) in order to rob him.
1858[see garrotting vbl. n.]. 1869J. Greenwood Sev. Curses Lond. 201 A ruffian, committed for trial for garotting and nearly murdering a gentleman. 1890Spectator 30 Aug., Young ruffians of the class who garotte their schoolfellows to rob them. 1896Boston (Mass.) Herald 16 Feb. 11/8 A man was garrotted last night at Bayard Street, New York.
b. transf. and fig. To strangle.
1878R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at home viii. 184 This happens when the loop..has slipped and seized the creature just at the gills. It then garottes the fish. 1893K. Grahame Pagan Papers 38 Commercialism, whose name is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco, and garrotes the streams with the girder.
Hence gaˈrrotted ppl. a.
1860Tylor Anahuac ix. 247 Garotted malefactors sitting bolt upright in the high wooden chairs they had just been executed in. |