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Noun: strapado
  1. A form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
    "The strapado was a common torture method during the Inquisition";
    - strappado

Type of: torture, torturing