Crossword-Solution: GARROTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Garroter | n. | One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GARROTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spanish executioner. | 1 answer |
| someone who kills by strangling | 1 answer |
| Strangler | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GARROTER (5)
Here the terrible garroter dwelt for a long time; aye, and throve, too, until our criminal judges began sentencing every one of them convicted before them to the extreme penalty of twenty years in Sing Sing, which largely suppressed that class of criminals in this city.
Washington is likewise the greatest garroter of truth; and I am sure that the truth about the last battles will be throttled and never elucidated.
Mayo, meeting two friends last night, whom he recognized but who did not recognize him, playfully seized one of them, a judge, and, garroter fashion, demanded his money or his life.
And in the meantime, what? Fry here in the sacred heat with our tongues hanging out while you deal us drop by drop--hein?" "Perhaps." "But no!" The garroter clenched his hands.
Springing across the prostrate man, Dubosc snatched the flask upright and put the width of the raft between himself and the big garroter who stood wide-legged, his bloodshot eyes alight, rumbling in his chest.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1998).