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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1953–1989).