strappado
Kelime Anlamı :

1. işkence olarak bileklerinden iple yukarıya çekip tekrar bırakıvererek düşürme cezası.
2. bu şekilde cezalandırmak.
Tanımlar :
1. A form of torture in which the victim is lifted off the ground by a rope attached to the wrists, which have been tied behind the back, and then is dropped partway to the ground with a jerk.
2. the apparatus employed in this method of torture.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A form of torture in which the victim is hung from the ceiling by a rope attached to the hands, which are tied together behind the victim's back.
2. to torture by means of this device.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. 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.
2. to punish or torture by the strappado.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.