STRAPPADO

(Italian) a form of torture in which victim is left dangling from a rope [n -S] / to torture by this [v STRAPPADOED, STRAPPADOING, STRAPPADOS or STRAPPADOES]
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

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