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A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and garrotte〔''Oxford English Dictionary'', 11th Ed: garrotte is normal British English spelling, with single r alternate. Article title is US English spelling variant.〕) is a weapon, most often referring to a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person.〔Newquist, H.P. and Maloof, Rich, ''This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go'', New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0-312-54062-3 (2009), pp. 133-6〕 ==Assassination weapon== A garrote can be made out of many different materials, including ropes, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire. 〔〔Whittaker, Wayne, ''Tough Guys'', Popular Mechanics, February 1943, Vol. 79 No. 2, pp. 44〕〔Steele, David E., ''Silent Sentry Removal'', Black Belt Magazine, August 1986, Vol. 24 No. 8, pp. 48-49〕 A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word actually refers to the stick itself, so it is a ''pars pro toto'' where the eponymous component may actually be absent. In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a torture device.〔〔''(garrote )'', 7th sense, ''Diccionario de la Real Academia Española''.〕 Since World War II, the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of eliminating sentries and other enemy personnel.〔〔 Instruction in the use of purpose-built and improvised garrottes is included in the training of many elite military units and special forces.〔 A typical military garrote consists of two wooden handles attached to a length of flexible wire; the wire is looped over a sentry's head and pulled taut in one motion.〔〔 Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion have used a particular type of double-loop garrote (referred to as ''la loupe''), where a double coil of rope or cord is dropped around a victim's neck and then pulled taut. Even if the victim pulls on one of the coils, he only succeeds in tightening the other.〔 The garrote was widely employed in 17th and 18th century India as an assassination device, particularly by the Thuggee cult.〔 Practitioners used a yellow silk or cloth scarf called a rumāl.〔 The Indian version of the garrote frequently incorporates a knot at the center intended to aid in crushing the larynx while someone applies pressure to the victim's back, usually with a foot or knee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garrote」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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