Strappado /(?)/

Strap·pa·do

Strappado

n.

pl. Strappadoes

  1. A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.

Strappado

v. t.
  1. To punish or torture by the strappado.