Garrotte

Sometimes with a long rifle, sometimes up very close and personally with a knife or garrotte for the sake of silence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'll pull a near all-nighter writing rot of life's garrotte, the dead line pulling tighter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And late that night, after all the children were nestled snug in their beds, dreaming of sugarplums and what not, Betty would quietly enter the housekeeper's bedroom and choke her out with a garrotte, and subsequently disposing of her body in Lake Memphremagog. ❋ Jason Linkins (2010)

Electrical cord had been wound around her head and the small handle of a magnifying glass had been used to tighten it like a garrotte. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Case saw the crude wooden handles that drifted at either end of the garrotte, like worn sections of broom handle. ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)

On the merest criticism of tax credits from the say Purnell-led frontbench, he'd gnaw our green leather seats through to their springs and garrotte with the microphones that dangle from the eves whomsoever of our number happened to be in the way. ❋ Valleys Mam (2008)

The way I heard it, they were ruled a safety hazard; some 'air rage' pisshead might grab it and use it as a garrotte. ❋ Rogue Gunner (2007)

Necros uses the headphone chord of his Walkman as a garrotte and has clever milk bottle bombs. ❋ David Campbell (2006)

He was wearing a grey suit, white cotton shirt and an expensive necktie of watered red silk which I attempted, unsuccessfully, to use as a garrotte. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

Some passed out and did not then feel the garrotte first slide and then tighten round their necks. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2005)

Certainly, I've seen enough of plains magic to tell you that, yes, they have wind-wizards who can make rugs float upon the wind and smoke flow where they command it, regardless of how the wind blows, and I myself have seen a garrotte fly across a crowded tavern and wrap around the throat of a soldier who had insulted a wind-wizard's woman. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2005)

Anna found it hard to believe the smallness of the garrotte, no more than two inches in diameter. ❋ Lynda La Plante (2004)

It took some seconds for him to appreciate that this was a garrotte, and that he might be expected to use it. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

They held him, a garrotte around his neck, forcing him to his knees in front of the Captain-General. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1996)

Instead of strangling him, they pulled the garrotte so tight and twisted it so hard that it broke his neck and with only a twitch or two he was gone. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1996)

Garrotte is [a type] of [torture] [method] ❋ Dahurian (2015)

[Garrott] [stole] my girl and bought her a [lambo] ❋ Daniel22334 (2017)