strappado

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strappado (enc)

Noun

strappado - torture in which a person's hands and tied behind their back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists and that allowed to drop until their fall is checked by the rope

torturing, torture - the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

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