Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

garroter

garroter , noun

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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