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Strangler   /strˈæŋglər/   Listen
Strangler

noun
1.
An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree.  Synonym: strangler tree.
2.
Someone who kills by strangling.  Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler.



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"Strangler" Quotes from Famous Books



... M. de Chagny to keep his hand at the level of his eyes, with the arm bent, as though waiting for the command to fire. With his victim in this attitude, it is impossible even for the most expert strangler to throw the lasso with advantage. It catches you not only round the neck, but also round the arm or hand. This enables you easily to unloose the lasso, ...
— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

... fearful grip which held him, but now the dancing girl sprang to him and pressed against his face a cloth she had drawn from beneath her yellow robe. Almost at once the powerful drug with which the cloth was saturated took effect. Jack's head dropped forward, and the dancing girl nodded to the strangler ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore

... Phansiagars, or Thugs. They owe their origin and laws to Karle. They say that she told them to become murderers and plunderers. They are called Phansiagars, from the name of the instrument which they use when they murder people. Phansiagar means a strangler, and they use a phansi, or noose, which they throw over the necks of those whom they intend to plunder, and strangle them. These Phansiagars are composed of all castes, Hindoos, Mahommedans, pariahs, and chandellars. This arises from the ...
— Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. • Dr. John Scudder



Words linked to "Strangler" :   air plant, killer, epiphytic plant, aerophyte, Clusia major, Clusia rosea, pitch apple, strangle, slayer, epiphyte



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