Sentence example with the word 'strappado'

strappado

Definition n. a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists

Last update: August 16, 2015


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I did hear that, as this raid of some privates interfered with the Dutch general's diet, one of the offenders got the strappado.   [Please select]

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No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.   [Please select]

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I'll uphold you to face Spaniards, strappado, rack, galleys, and all.'   [Please select]

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The strappado was an instrument of torture by which the victim's limbs were wrenched out of joint and broken.   [Please select]

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