garrot

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Gar′rot noun

Origin: F. Cf. Garrote.

Surgery A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.


Gar′rot noun

Zoology The European golden-eye.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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