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Meanings of strappado in English

Spanish
garrucha
Catalan
estrapada
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Type of torture.

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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.

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A 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.

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Usage of strappado in English
1
But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
The Red Axe
2
I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
The Yeoman Adventurer
3
I'll uphold you to face Spaniards, strappado, rack, galleys, and all!
To Have and to Hold
4
By my faith, he shall know what the strappado means when I see Versailles again.
The Refugees / A Tale of Two Continents
5
Scarpines and strappado won't lay stone on stone!
Sir Mortimer: A Novel
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But no sooner was he delivered from the strappado, than he retracted all that he had before confessed.
Lives of the Necromancers
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The strappado was an instrument of torture by which the victim's limbs were wrenched out of joint and broken.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
8
No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
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.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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.
Cenci / Celebrated Crimes
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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.
Mentats of Dune
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"Of a ravishment-ofthe strappado applied to a man bound hand and foot-
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
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"I cannot- Idarenot," he cried; "it is the place of torture-ofthe engines-the strappado-thewater-drop, the leg-crushers!"
The Red Axe
14
"Then, by the blessed shrine of St Jago, give the fellows at least the strappado," cried Don John, out of all patience.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
15
But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
The Red Axe
16
I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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Translations for strappado
Catalan
estrapada
Strappado through the time