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单词 strangler
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stranglern.

Brit. /ˈstraŋɡlə/, U.S. /ˈstræŋɡ(ə)lər/
Etymology: < strangle v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who or something which strangles. literal and figurative. strangler's grip = strangle-hold (strangle n. Compounds).
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the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > strangler
strangler1552
throttler1810
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
swengOE
turn?c1225
castc1400
trip1412
fall?a1425
foil1553
collar1581
lock1598
faulx1602
fore-hip1602
forward1602
inturn1602
mare1602
hug1617
disembracement1663
buttock1688
throw1698
back-lock1713
cross-buttock1713
flying horse1713
in holds1713
buttocker1823
chip1823
dogfall1823
cross-buttocker1827
hitch1834
bear hug1837
backfall1838
stop1840
armlock1841
side hug1842
click1846
catch-hold1849
back-breaker1867
back-click1867
snap1868
hank1870
nelson1873
headlock1876
chokehold1886
stranglehold1886
hip lock1888
heave1889
strangle1890
pinfall1894
strangler's grip1895
underhold1895
hammer-lock1897
scissor hold1897
body slam1899
scissors hold1899
armbar1901
body scissors1903
scissors grip1904
waist-hold1904
neck hold1905
scissors1909
hipe1914
oshi1940
oshi-dashi1940
oshi-taoshi1940
pindown1948
lift1958
whip1958
Boston crab1961
grapevine1968
powerbomb1990
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Strangler, suffocator.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H My selfe will be thy strangler, vnmatcht slaue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 122 The band that seemes to tye their friendship together, will bee the very strangler of their Amity. View more context for this quotation
1753 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2053 I am glad that the capital strangler should, in his turn, be strangle-able.
1844 Peter Parley's Ann. 355 Though..the cords of the strangler and the sword of the headsman be ready for me.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 2/1 The strangler's grip is another trick which some men practise, though not very often with success, as the police know it and watch for it.
b. spec. in Botany, an epiphytic plant which eventually sends its roots to the ground and smothers its host.
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the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > epiphyte
superplant1626
supercrescence1646
air plant1799
epiphyte1861
strangler1895
1895 J. Rodway In Guiana Forest 91 The strangler is now ready for its deadly work. The forest giant..is bound by cords which are stronger than iron bands.
1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest ii. 21 The third section of dependent plants, here termed stranglers..begin life as epiphytes and later send roots to the ground.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xiv. 435 Stranglers..begin life as epiphytes but later send down roots to the soil.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 288/1 Clusia..dioecious trees and shrubs, occasionally more or less epiphytic or stranglers.
2. = choke n.2 7.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > petrol > carburettor > parts of
float1901
float-chamber1901
float needle1901
float-feed1902
tickler1906
strangler1925
choke1926
1925 E. W. Knott Carburettor Handbk. i. 29 Easy starting devices... First, stranglers or air chokes which reduce the main air supply by means of a suitable shutter or similar device, the use of which increases the suction on the main fuel orifice or jet far beyond the normal state of affairs.
1976 J. Watson Understanding your Car v. 27 A second butterfly valve, mounted above the spray tube..is known as a strangler, and by cutting off most of the air it greatly increases the suction on the jet to give a very rich mixture for starting.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations in sense 1b, as strangler fig, strangler vine.
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1955 Sci. Amer. Apr. 74/2 The strangler fig in the tropical jungle, which kills other trees to reach the light, is a rare type.
1962 Times 6 Apr. 7/2 Strangler figs..envelope and kill other trees.
1976 Publishers Weekly 12 Jan. 50/3 ‘Nanny’ grows upon the family like a strangler vine upon a tree.
C2.
strangler tree n. U.S. a tree of the genus Clusia, growing usually as a parasite on some other tree.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Suppl., Strangler tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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