To murder by suffocation.
To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
To execute by strangulation.
To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.