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iron collar

n. an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation [syn: garrote, garotte, garrotte]

Usage examples of "iron collar".

As he ended speaking he drew back, and Gascoyne, mounting upon a stool, covered his friend's head and bascinet with the great jousting helm, making fast the leathern points that held it to the iron collar.

Now that the iron collar is around her neck, it's the only way to get her out.

The heavy iron collar I had worn was now replaced with a lighter collar, enameled white.

I looked at the heavy linkage of the gold chain, slung over the iron collar and work chain I wore.

I felt her hair on my chest, the chain, too, depending from her-looped, iron collar.

On her neck there was a common iron collar, a strap collar, hammered shut, as there had been on the neck of she who, until a few Ehn ago, had had the name 'Ina'.

My neck wore an iron collar, with its ring, behind my neck, through which a long chain passed, the chain, too, being held to the wall by its own rings.

He eased the heavy iron collar, with the short, dangling chain, from Ram's neck.

Over her iron collar she wore a heavy leather Kur collar, high, heavily sewn, with its large ring.