A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the
throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron
collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become
extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the...
