strappados
Meaning of strappados
noun
a form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk.
mid 16th century: from French ( e)strapade, from Italian strappata, from strappare ‘to snatch’.
Information about strappados
- It is a name.
- The singular form of strappados is: strappado.
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Hyphenation of strappados
strap-pa-dos
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- strappados is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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