Crossword-Solution: GARROTES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| What a tight collar does. | 1 answer |
| Strangles | 2 answers |
| Executes, in a way | 4 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GARROTES (5)
The garrucha or strappado and the garrotes, combined with the water-torture and the rack, represented the survival of the fittest in the natural selection of torments concerning which the Holy Office in Italy and Spain had such a vast experience.
Yes: to-day the iron horse has searched the country through—east and west, north and south—bringing with it Commercialism, whose god is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco and garrotes the streams with the girder.
The _garrotes_ (pikes) had heads like two flattened semicircles, a shape preserved amongst negroes to the present day.
Our men pursued it with the _garrotes_ (alpenstocks), loudly shouting,' Tio Jose!': 'Uncle Joseph,' however, escaped, running like a Guanche.
The work was to proceed slowly with due intervals between each turn of the _garrotes_ or hoist in the _garrucha_, or otherwise the effect was lost, and the patient was apt to overcome the torture.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1953–1989).