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iron collar

NOUN
  1. an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation

How To Use iron collar In A Sentence

  • Discipline was maintained by a free application of whips, fetters, stocks, manacles, chains and the kongo, an iron collar with a long beam.
  • Discipline was maintained by a free application of whips, fetters, stocks, manacles, chains and the kongo, an iron collar with a long beam.
  • It stands on the lower "corbie" step of a pigeon-house, with the strange accompaniment of a pair of "jougs," an iron collar for securing a prisoner. The Book of Sun-Dials
  • It stands on the lower "corbie" step of a pigeon-house, with the strange accompaniment of a pair of "jougs," an iron collar for securing a prisoner. The Book of Sun-Dials
  • The few cottages that remain speak of other days, and the old churchyard, and the jougs -- an iron collar in which offenders were pilloried -- fastened to the porch of the church, bring back the long-forgotten past. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • 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. Men of Iron
  • Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end, iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.
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