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Meanings of garrotter in English
Synonyms
Examples for "choker"
Examples for "choker"
1
Back in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America's eponymous choker has good news for me.
2
William had given her the pearl choker for their third wedding anniversary.
3
She glanced at Nelson and found him wearing a choker of light.
4
In her jewelry box back in Baltimore was a four-strand pearl choker.
5
She stood by the bed, reached back and slowly unfastened the choker.
1
Two countries have placed a strangler fig on their coats of arms.
2
Now for the first time in his narrative did the strangler betray emotion.
3
Then his voice stopped as if a strangler's thumb had blocked the windpipe.
4
They took a fancy to the strangler figs and brought back a sapling.
5
Graham Guthrie, very pale, stood looking down at the dead strangler.
1
It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
2
The methods of the garroter were quick, sure and silent.
3
Look about you, or you will feel the garroter's hug.
4
One hand of the garroter was on his throat, the other was busily rifling his pockets.
5
Even now, in the case of this bloody-handed butcher, this ruthless garroter....
1
The name means 'throttler' in Greek.
2
The Hamiltonian guitar throttlers release their first album - sharp and brittle as an oyster shell, yet filled with pearls that stroke the ear.
Usage of garrotter in English
1
The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.
2
But the public garrotter, he is a bad thing too.
3
Many a man had they seen with his throat in the hands of the public garrotter; and all had begun with denials who ended thus.
4
Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters.
5
After dinner at the Birds' one evening we fell to talking of garrotters.
6
Garrotters pursued their calling, deterred only by the cat-o'-nine tails, pickpockets abounded and burglaries were common.
7
"Yes," said the Colonel slowly, "but this does not mean common garrotters.
8
No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters.
9
"A garrotter, most likely," said Smith.
Frequent collocations
Garrotter through the time