Usually means: Strangling tool for assassination, execution.
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  1. garrote: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. garrote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garrote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. garrote: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Garrote, garrote: Wordnik
  7. garrote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. garrote: Wiktionary
  9. garrote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. garrote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Garrote, garrote: Dictionary.com
  12. garrote: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Garrote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Garrote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. garrote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. garrote: Rhymezone
  17. Garrote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. garrote: Free Dictionary
  19. garrote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. garrote: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. garrote: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See garotted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (garrote)

noun:  (historical) An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
noun:  Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.
verb:  (transitive) To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
verb:  (transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.

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