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English
Etymology 1
French garrot
Pronunciation
Noun
garrot (plural garrots)
- A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
- The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.
Verb
garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)
- Alternative form of garrote
Translations
stick used for tightening
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Noun
garrot (plural garrots)
- A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French garrot.
Pronunciation
Noun
garrot m (plural garrots)
- club, truncheon
- Synonym: bastó
- garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)
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French
Etymology
From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.
Pronunciation
Noun
garrot m (plural garrots)
- tourniquet
- garrot (small wooden cylinder)
- garrote
- goldeneye (duck)
- withers
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