garroting, garoting (garoting)

The act of strangling a person, or compre ing his windpipe until he becomes insensible: practised especially in committing highway robbery. This crime is usually effected by three accomplices, called in England the fore - stall, or man who walks before the intended victim; the back - stall, who walks behind the operator and his victim; and the nasty - man, the actual perpetrator of the crime. The purpose of the stalls is to conceal the crime, give alarm of danger, carry off the booty, and facilitate the escape of the nasty-man. garett; ME. garett, garette, garite, a watchtower, 2. To secure or defend by fortre es manned tory.-3. To put upon garrison duty. The seventh he nameth Hippos or Hippion, a city so called Herod, of on the a colony east side of of horsemen the Galilean there Sea. garrisoned by Raleigh, Hist. World, II. vii. § 4. In those days there had been much garroting in the walked about at night to go armed with sticks. Trollope, Phineas Redux, xlvi.