Definition of Garrot

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

2. n. The European golden-eye.

Definition of Garrot

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

2. Noun. A bird, the European goldeneye. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Garrot

1. a duck [n -S]

Medical Definition of Garrot

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb. Origin: F. Cf. Garrote. The European golden-eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garrot

garreteers
garretlike
garrets
garrigue
garrigues
garring
garrison
garrison belt
garrison cap
garrisoned
garrisoning
garrisons
garron
garronite
garrons
garrot (current term)
garrote
garroted
garroter
garroters
garrotes
garroting
garrots
garrotte
garrotted
garrotter
garrotters
garrottes
garrotting
garrulities

Literary usage of Garrot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Probate Reports: Containing Recent Cases of General Value (1886)
"garrot (1 Dev. & Batt. Eq. 89.5) was this : "A legacy to the lawful heirs of A., when it appears in the will that he is living, is equivalent, ..."

2. Feathered Game of the Northeast by Walter Herbert Rich (1907)
"... be after their winter-long struggle to keep their bodies from the soup-kettle and their skins from the taxidermists' shelves I ROCKY MOUNTAIN garrot. ..."

3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... by his children (4 vols. 1885-89) ; and poems to his memory by both Whittier and Lowell. garrot, a name applied to various ducks—eg to ..."

4. The American Probate Reports: Containing Recent Cases of General Value (1886)
"garrot (1 Dev. & Batt. Eq. 89.5) was this : "A legacy to the lawful heirs of A., when it appears in the will that he is living, is equivalent, ..."

5. Feathered Game of the Northeast by Walter Herbert Rich (1907)
"... be after their winter-long struggle to keep their bodies from the soup-kettle and their skins from the taxidermists' shelves I ROCKY MOUNTAIN garrot. ..."

6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... by his children (4 vols. 1885-89) ; and poems to his memory by both Whittier and Lowell. garrot, a name applied to various ducks—eg to ..."

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