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Significats de strappado en anglès
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garrucha A form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope.
Veure'n mésA form of torture in which the victim's hands are first tied behind their back, and then he or she is suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms.
Veure'n mésÚs de strappado en anglès
1
But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
2
I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
3
I'll uphold you to face Spaniards, strappado, rack, galleys, and all!
4
By my faith, he shall know what the strappado means when I see Versailles again.
5
Scarpines and strappado won't lay stone on stone!
6
But no sooner was he delivered from the strappado, than he retracted all that he had before confessed.
7
The strappado was an instrument of torture by which the victim's limbs were wrenched out of joint and broken.
8
No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.
9
I did hear that, as this raid of some privates interfered with the Dutch general's diet, one of the offenders got the strappado.
10
Lastly comes the torture of the rope and pulley, the most in vogue of all, and known in other Latin countries as the strappado.
11
Glancing through a wide window, Roderick saw a portable strappado out in the plaza, along with a spiked chair, compression helmets, and a medieval rack.
12
"Of a ravishment-ofthe strappado applied to a man bound hand and foot-
13
"I cannot- Idarenot," he cried; "it is the place of torture-ofthe engines-the strappado-thewater-drop, the leg-crushers!"
14
"Then, by the blessed shrine of St Jago, give the fellows at least the strappado," cried Don John, out of all patience.
15
But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
16
I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
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