Garret vs. Garrote — What's the Difference?

A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, often small, dismal, and cramped, with sloping ceilings. In the days before elevators this was the least prestigious position in a building, at the very top of the stairs.

A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and similar variants) is a weapon, usually a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line, used to strangle a person.

A top-floor or attic room, especially a small dismal one

A method of execution formerly practiced in Spain, in which a tightened iron collar is used to strangle or break the neck of a condemned person.

A room or set of rooms immediately under the roof of a building; an attic.

The iron collar used for such an execution.

An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

Strangulation, especially in order to rob.

A turret; a watchtower.

A cord or wire used for strangling.

That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

To execute by garrote.

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

To strangle in order to rob.

An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation Category:en:Capital punishment

Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation

(transitive) to execute by strangulation

(transitive) to kill using a garrote

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct.

The instrument by means of which the garrote{1} is inflicted.

A short length of rope or other instrument used to strangle a person.

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation

Strangle with an iron collar;