garroter

He cantilevered out over the water, using the basket end of the tool, called a garroter, to pull out sea urchins.

“Stopped by road-agents, garroters, highway robbers—whatever you like to call ’em.

They form the "Nineteenth-street Gangs," the young burglars and murderers, the garroters and rioters, the thieves and flash-men, the "repeaters" and ruffians, so well known to all who know this metropolis.

Fenayrou had none of his usual jests at the garroter's stupidity.

Mayo, meeting two friends last night, whom he recognized but who did not recognize him, playfully seized one of them, a judge, and, garroter fashion, demanded his money or his life.