Definition of "garroters" [garroters]

• Plural form of garroter. (noun)

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• ""Is he all right -- safe -- not one of them gars -- you know, the fellows that use a silk cord to strangle you with?" asked Thong, who had some imagination regarding garroters."
• "We may be very sure, that, if an American is the aim of their pensioned garroters and hired vitriol-throwers, he is an object of fear as well as of hatred, and that the assault proves his ability as well as his love of freedom and zeal for the nation to which he belongs."
• "He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to"