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Webster 1913 Edition


Garrot

Gar′rot

,
Noun.
[F. Cf.
Garrote
.]
(Surg.)
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

Gar′rot

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
The European golden-eye.

Definition 2024


garrot

garrot

English

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

  1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
    The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.
  2. A seaduck of the genre Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

  1. Alternative form of garrote

French

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

  1. tourniquet
  2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
  3. garrote
  4. goldeneye (duck)
  5. (anatomy) withers

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