The Collaborative International Dictionary
Golden-eye \Gold"en-eye`\ (g[=o]ld"'n*[imac]), n. (Zo["o]l.) A duck ( Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America ( Glaucionetta Islandica) is less common.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of duck, from French garrot, of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb. 2 A seaduck of the genre ''Bucephala''; a goldeneye. vb. (alt form garrote English)
Usage examples of "garrot".
When he awoke to find his whole face blistered up like a lobster, he immediately garroted the dermatologist and fled the State of Pennsylvania forever.
You have hung in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, garroted at Jerez, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Paris, but there is one thing you cannot destroy: Anarchism.
Two stilettos as thin as darning needles rested beneath a garroting wire with narrow metal handles.
Betts had been strangled, garroted, with some sort of thin cord or wire.
The diplomat had been strangled, garroted in exactly the same way as Scoop Martin and the members of the Paris station.
A gruesome mental image of Scoop Martin, garroted, flashed into his head.
The vicious killer who had garroted the men in Paris and Amos Hilliard and his good friend Roger Martin .
Thing was, they were garroted, but there was no wire, so I didn't get the pop.
They created object lessons that no one in the criminal community ever forgot: a grand jury witness garroted with wire, a hooker drenched with gasoline and turned into a cone of flame, a mob member who had cuckolded a friend emasculated and his phallus stuffed in his mouth.
I woke up about ten in the morning, found out that nobody in London knew how to make a good cup of coffee, and when it was getting on toward noon I moseyed over to the Garroted Goose, where Von Horst was waiting for me at a table in the back.
And not so much as a choice of means, but garroted like a common criminal?
Marcoyn had led the blood-maddened crewmen on their hunt for enemies, had hung the remaining lieutenants and a fourteen-year-old midshipman, Sempter, from the mizzen shrouds, and there garroted them one by one.
Every now and then a buzzer sounded, the girl called out a name, and the garrots marched turn by turn through a door crusted with old green paint, emerging after a while with sadder faces than when they went in.
His army was not as immense as the one which moksha Fleshharrower his brother had lost in Garroting Deep.
Rape, child abuse, and bestiality: all rapists, nonces and sheep-shaggers wanted hanging, garroting, and gassing, the bastards.