Garrote

garrote
    n 1: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
         [syn: {garrote}, {garotte}, {garrotte}, {iron collar}]
    v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
         the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: {garrote}, {garrotte},
         {garotte}, {scrag}]
    

Garrote \Gar*rote"\, n. [Sp. garrote, from garra claw, talon, of
   Celtic origin; cf. Armor. & W. gar leg, ham, shank. Cf.
   {Garrot} stick, {Garter}.]
   A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron
   collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life
   become extinct.
   [1913 Webster]

   2. The instrument by means of which the garrote[1] is
      inflicted.

   Syn: garrote, garotte, iron collar.
        [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

   3. Hence: A short length of rope or other instrument used to
      strangle a person.
      [PJC]
    

Garrote \Gar*rote"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garroted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Garroting}.]
   To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat,
   from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
   [1913 Webster]
    

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "garrote":
      asphyxia, asphyxiate, asphyxiation, behead, beheading, bowstring,
      burke, burking, burn, burning, capital punishment, choke, choking,
      crucifixion, crucify, decapitate, decapitation, decollate,
      decollation, defenestrate, defenestration, drown, drowning,
      electrocute, electrocution, execute, execution, fusillade, gassing,
      guillotine, hanging, hemlock, inflict capital punishment,
      judicial murder, lapidate, lapidation, necktie party, poisoning,
      put to death, shoot, shooting, smother, smotheration, smothering,
      stifle, stifling, stone, stoning, stop the breath, strangle,
      strangling, strangulation, suffocate, suffocation, the ax,
      the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine,
      the hot seat, the rope, throttle, throttling