garrot

From French garrot. Doublet of garrote.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹət/
• Rhymes: -æɹət

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.

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

1. Alternative form of garrote.

Unknown.

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

• Rogart

Borrowed from French garrot.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəˈrɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈrɔt]

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. club, truncheon

   Synonym: bastó

2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

• garrotar

• “garrot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁo/

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garrot m (plural garrots)

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

• garroter

• → Spanish: garrote
  • → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

• “garrot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.