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Definition: Strappado |
StrappadoNoun1. Torture in which a person's hands and tied behind their back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists and that allowed to drop until their fall is checked by the rope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strappado" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Strappado \Strap*pa"do\, noun; plural Strappadoes. [Italian strappata a pull, the strappado, from strappare to pull, from Prov. German strapfen: compare to German straff tense, stretched.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Strappado A military punishment formerly practised; it consisted of pulling an offender to a beam and then letting him down suddenly; by this means a limb was not unfrequently dislocated. (Italian, strappare, to pull.) "Were I at the strappado or the rack, I'd give no man a reason on compulsion."- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are two variants of this torture. On the first one, the victim has his arms tied behind his back and then a large rope is tied to his wrists and passed over a beam or a hook on the roof. The torturer pulls on this rope until the victim is hanging from his arms. Since he has the hands tied behind the back, this will cause a very intense pain and possible dislocation of the arms.
On the second variant, the victim's hands are tied to the front. The victim will also be hanged from the hands, but now his ankles would also be tied and a heavy weight would be hanged from them. This will not only cause pain and possible damage to the arms, but also to the legs and hips.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Strappado."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Strappado |
| English words defined with "strappado": Strappadoes. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
strappado | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "strappado"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csigába húzás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | appadostray polé (pulley), estrapada. (various references) дыба (rack). (various references) mučenje na secalici. (various references) kiểu tra tấn "cho đi t u bay" dụng cụ tra tấn "cho đi t u bay". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "strappado": strappadoes, strappados. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adaptors. | |
-2 letters: adaptor, parados. | |
-3 letters: adapts, adopts, aortas, pastor, posada, sapota, satrap. | |
-4 letters: adapt, adopt, aorta, apart, apods, aport, ataps, darts, datos, doats, dopas, dorps, dorsa, drats, drops, dropt, papas, paras, pards, parts, pasta, ports, praos, prats, proas, prods, props, prost, ratos, roads, roast, rotas, sapor, sarod, spado, sport, sprat, strap, strop, tapas, tardo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: strappados. | |
+2 letters: strappadoes. | |
+3 letters: paratyphoids, postprandial, propagandist. | |
+4 letters: propagandists. | |
+5 letters: disapprobation, preadaptations, propagandistic. | |
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