garrot

English

Etymology 1

French garrot

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡæɹət/
  • Rhymes: -æɹət

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

  1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
    The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

  1. Alternative form of garrote
Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

  1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

  1. club, truncheon
    Synonym: bastó
  2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Provençal garra (leg) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡa.ʁo/
  • (file)

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

  1. tourniquet
  2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
  3. garrote
  4. goldeneye (duck)
  5. withers

Descendants

  • Spanish: garrote
    • San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

Further reading

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