garotte

Is he like Duclosse the mealman, or Lajeunesse the blacksmith, or Garotte the lime-burner-and the rest?

After this semi-religious procession, evening brought the march of Garotte's Kalathumpians.

For Americans who had dared to revolt, there was the gibbet and the garotte, or imprisonment in a dreary dungeon.

The pirates were defeated; Lopez was made prisoner, and died by the garotte, at Havana, on the 1st of September.

He would come stealthily into my room and garotte me in a conversational way.