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Webster 1913 Edition

Strappado

Strap-pa′do

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Noun.
;
pl.
Strappadoes
(#)
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[It.
strappata
a pull, the strappado, from
strappare
to pull, from Prov. G.
strapfen
: cf. G.
straff
tense, stretched.]
A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.
Shak.

Strap-pa′do

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Verb.
T.
To punish or torture by the strappado.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Strappado

STRAPPADO

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Noun.
A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes dislocated.

STRAPPADO

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Verb.
T.
To torture.

Definition 2024

strappado

strappado

English

Noun

strappado ‎(countable and uncountable, plural strappados or strappadoes)

  1. A form of torture in which the victim is hung from the ceiling by a rope attached to the hands, which are tied together behind the victim's back.

Translations

Verb

strappado ‎(third-person singular simple present strappados, present participle strappadoing, simple past and past participle strappadoed)

  1. (transitive) To torture by means of this device.

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