strappado 的定义
plural strap·pa·does.
- an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- the instrument used for this purpose.
更多strappado例句
- After a smart administration of the strappado, he proceeded to examine the contents of his pinafore, which was bundled round him.
- I did hear that, as this raid of some privates interfered with the Dutch general's diet, one of the offenders got the strappado.
- I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
- Nay, rather the strappado for me, at any time, than abandonment to foolishness so crass as this would be.
- If I die, let my boy Robin have the strappado, three hours a day, to be duly paid him during life.