STRAPPADO as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • torture in which a person’’s hands and tied behind their back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists and that allowed to drop until their fall is checked by the rope
   Hypernyms(s) strappado is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • torture (what does torture mean?)
   • torturing (what does torturing mean?)