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Meaning Of Garrote
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.