Garrot vs. Garrote — What's the Difference?

A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

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 seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

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 stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

The iron collar used for such an execution.

The European golden-eye.

Strangulation, especially in order to rob.

A cord or wire used for strangling.

To execute by garrote.

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;