Strappado Meaning in Hindi

What is the translation of word Strappado in Hindi?

Definition of word Strappado

• a form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk.

Other Meanings of Strappado

• NOUN

  एक प्रकार का दुर्दशा का दंड strappado

• MORE

  दंड देना give one his gruel give one what for infliction make an example of strappado
  किसी अपराधी के हाथों या किसी अंग को रस्सों से बाँध-कर लटकाए जाने का कठोर दंड strappado

Example Sentences

In Japan, for example, torture was used from a very early date to extract confessions, and from the beginning of the Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century the Japanese seem to have used something very like the strappado .