To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
To execute by strangulation.
A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To pull or twist violently.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.