Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who commits the act of garroting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who uses a
garrote . - noun A person who
strangles someone from behind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who kills by strangling
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Examples
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It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
Les Miserables 2008
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He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew's-harp.
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The thug existed until 1855 or 1860, the professional hereditary garroter of one native Indian class, who strangled his victims with a handkerchief.
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Picks a gun from somewhere around his shirt-front, shoots the garroter over his shoulder; kills the man in front, who is at him with a stiletto, ducks a couple of shots from the gang, and lays out two more of 'em.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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It may be added that it is this spot which is reached by the needle of the garroter in Spanish executions, and that the same centre also is destroyed when a criminal is "successfully" hanged, this time by the forced intrusion of a process of the second cervical vertebra.
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He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the Jew's harp.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"I know the way," whispered the garroter, and a few gathered around him.
The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Morgan Robertson 1888
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The methods of the garroter were quick, sure and silent.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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Here the terrible garroter dwelt for a long time; aye, and throve, too, until our criminal judges began sentencing every one of them convicted before them to the extreme penalty of twenty years in
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
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