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[…] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.
The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, →ISBN:
The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.
Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.
The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.
“And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”
1905, Henry J. Coke, Tracks of a Rolling Stone:
About this time the police reports were full of cases of garrotting. The victim was seized from behind, one man gagged or burked him, while another picked his pocket.
1357, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 139:
afforo [...] a meatade de toda essa minna binna, con o herdamento que ias a par dela [...] con a meatade do lagar et garrote que y esta assy commo esta acaroada de muro
I rent to you half of my vineyard, with the possessions that are adjacent to it with half of the winepress that is there, as it is delimited by a wall
“garrote” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“garrote” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“garrote” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
