garrot

French garrot

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹət/

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

   The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

2. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. Alternative form of garrote

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁo/

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. tourniquet
2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
3. garrote
4. goldeneye (duck)
5. withers

• garroter

• Spanish: garrote

• “garrot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).