Crossword clues for strangler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strangler \Stran"gler\, n.
One who, or that which, strangles. ``The very strangler of
their amity.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, agent noun from strangle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling 2 an epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows
WordNet
n. an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree [syn: strangler tree]
someone who kills by strangling [syn: garroter, garrotter, throttler, choker]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "strangler".
Over the next several months DeSalvo submitted to an interrogation under hypnosis and recorded fifty hours of detailed confessions for John Bottomry, head of the Strangler Bureau.
Heng, Deliana, sexual assault and murder of, 43, 125, Hester, Maize D 156 Hill, Mike, 314, 316, 322-25 Hillside Strangler, 65 Hinckley case, 278 Hitchcock, Alfred, 26 Holton, Tim, 256, 259, 266 homicidal triad, 23 homicide: assassination-style, 33, 34 classification of, 342 lust, 9, 240-42 stranger vs.
All during the fading clatter from the fire escape and the dwindling footbeats from the cement of the rear courtyard, The Shadow lashed about the room with Hawser, artfully, forcing the strangler to waste his convulsive fury.
As coolly as though it were but a dog that Jack had slain with that tremendous blow, the Strangler lifted the dead Kachin and tossed him carelessly aside.
Here shafts of the sun seldom penetrated the canopy of leaves, except in fields such as the patch old Zacharias had cleared amongst the sedge of the marsh on the fringe of the forest His small hut, roughly constructed of tambuki grass and creosoted African wattle poles, huddled inside the hedge of branches surrounding the clearing, under a spreading strangler fig and a red milkwood tree that had grown old and gnarled together.
A tree pipit took fright when it saw him and flew erratically to the top of the milkwood entangled with the strangler fig.
Then, as The Shadow locked for another grapple, Shakes introduced a trick that he had learned from his old pal, Strangler Hunn.
With Bailey as his counsel, DeSalvo went to trial on January 10, 1967, not for the Boston Strangler murders, but for the Green Man assaults and break-ins.
From all of my study of serial sexual offenders, I believe it is virtually impossible that Albert DeSalvo was the Boston Strangler.
Had he been scheduled for the noose, the strangler would have accompanied him into the lower regions with sufficient helpers to restrain him, and when the deed was done, and his body tossed down into one of the drain openings, those who still lived would have climbed up a ladder to Rome and their world.
It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway.
It appeared that Ignace did not share the humor, for after a moment the agent jumped to his feet and said to the strangler, in a tone of voice brooking no argument: "Greyboar!
I mean, I don't want to know anything about Son of Sam or the fucking Hillside Strangler or Ted Bundy or Featherhead, for god sake.
DNA, NEW EVIDENCE RAISE POSSIBILITY STRANGLER HAS GENETIC DEFECT Abby's byline was nowhere to be found.
Thursday's story was front-page, above the fold, with the banner headline: DNA, NEW EVIDENCE RAISE POSSIBILITY STRANGLER HAS GENETIC DEFECT Abby's byline was nowhere to be found.