(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(2) The screens of the handsets shown on the site as "the hottest phones at the coolest prices", meanwhile, depict scenes including a fight between two snowmen, which appears to culminate in decapitation, garrotted turkeys and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer's severed head.
(3) Ultrasonography shows the intraluminal thrombus better than phlebography, since the gastrocnemic veins, which bypass the larger deep veins, can be opacified only after a garrot is placed above the knee.
(4) Acute separation of the trachea can occur with trauma to the neck, either by garrotting or direct blunt force.
(5) Strangulation techniques include hanging, throttling, garrotting, and chokeholds.
Scrag
Definition:
(n.) Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
(n.) A rawboned person.
(n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The economist and active Liberal Democrat Tim Leunig has crunched the numbers for a couple with four children paying typical rent in Tolworth, an area branded "the scrag end of Kingston Borough" by London's Evening Standard.
(2) Cooking is, to me, about leisure and pleasure not haste and waste (in cooking quickly the best bits of the ingredients, such as the tops off leaks and scrag ends of meat, so good when used in stock, get binned).
(3) Even in Tolworth, described by the Evening Standard as the "scrag end of Kingston borough", a four bedroom house will give you little change from £400 a week.
(4) And even I, with my odd scrags of Russian, understand her reply. "