English-Thai Dictionary
strappado
N วิธีการ ทรมาน แบบ หนึ่ง ใน สมัยโบราณ โดย ผูก ข้อมือ นักโทษ ให้ ขึ้น ที่สูง และ ปล่อย ลง อย่างรวดเร็ว
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
STRAPPADO
n.A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes dislocated.
STRAPPADO
v.t.To torture.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
STRAPPADO
Strap *pa "do, n.; pl. Strappadoes. Etym: [It. strappata a pull, the strappado, from strappare to pull, from Prov. G. strapfen: cf. G. straff tense, stretched. ]
Defn: A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated. Shak.
STRAPPADO
STRAPPADO Strap *pa "do, v. t.
Defn: To punish or torture by the strappado. Milton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
strappado
strap pa do |strəˈpādō, -ˈpä -strəˈpeɪdoʊ | ▶noun ( pl. strappados ) (usu. the strappado ) historical a form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk. • the instrument used for inflicting this punishment or torture. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French (e )strapade, from Italian strappata, from strappare ‘to snatch. ’
Oxford Dictionary
strappado
strappado |straˈpɑːdəʊ, -eɪdəʊ | ▶noun ( pl. strappados ) (usu. the strappado ) historical a form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk. • the instrument used for inflicting the punishment or torture of strappado. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French ( e )strapade, from Italian strappata, from strappare ‘to snatch ’.
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