Significats de garroter en anglès

It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.

The methods of the garroter were quick, sure and silent.

Look about you, or you will feel the garroter's hug.

One hand of the garroter was on his throat, the other was busily rifling his pockets.

Even now, in the case of this bloody-handed butcher, this ruthless garroter....

He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew's-harp.

A garroter lay on the roof ready to entangle me with his noose if I should escape the dagger of the old hag.

I wonder do we meet garroters in society?

He sneaked behind him and caught him by the throat, as the garroters used to do in the fog.

After it is cleared, it is vital to keep it cleared of weeds, which worse garroters of crops than trees.

Indulging in these reflections, not unaccompanied with smiles, I continued my way, with little fear, myself, of pickpockets or garroters.

He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to Nicaragua.

They are nearly all thieves, and a very large proportion of them are but the decoys of the most desperate male garroters and thieves.

Sometimes these girls deserve more pity than blame; but a very large proportion of them, perhaps the majority, act as decoys for garroters and thieves.