garotte | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. garotte, garrote, garrotte, iron collar | an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation. |
| ~ instrument of execution | an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person. |
v. (contact) | 2. garotte, garrote, garrotte, scrag | strangle with an iron collar.; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" |
| ~ strangle, strangulate, throttle | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air.; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" |
walking stick | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. walking stick | a stick carried in the hand for support in walking. |
| ~ cane | a stick that people can lean on to help them walk. |
| ~ stick | an implement consisting of a length of wood.; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick" |
| ~ supplejack | walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine. |
n. (animal) | 2. stick insect, walking stick, walkingstick | any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies. |
| ~ phasmid, phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects. |
| ~ family phasmatidae, family phasmidae, phasmatidae, phasmidae | stick insects. |
| ~ diapheromera, diapheromera femorata | a variety of stick insect. |
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