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strappado


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strappado  \Strap*pa"do\,  v.  t. 
  To  punish  or  torture  by  the  strappado.  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strappado  \Strap*pa"do\,  n.;  pl  {Strappadoes}.  [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. 




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