garrote

garrote has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• v. t.. To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
• n.. an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
• v.. strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"