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Strapado
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1. strapado, strappado
a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.