Defenition of the word strapado

• Defenition of the word strapado

  • 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

Hypernyms for the word strapado

• • torture
  • torturing

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