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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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