Definition of "garrotter" [garrotter]

• Someone who garrottes (noun)

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• "When he found that Mr Kennedy was a member of Parliament, and that he was designated as Right Honourable, his respect for the garrotter became more great, and he began to feel that the night was indeed a night of great importance."
• "_Punch_ became, it was said, "anti-Irish;" or, as he himself declared, he could not confound Irish misdeeds with Irish wrongs; and it was with that view that he was wont to picture the Irish political outrage-mongering peasant as a cross between a garrotter and a gorilla."
• "A man can be as naughty as he likes, and there is nobody to whip him unless he is a garrotter."