squassation

[skwo-sey-shuhn]

squas·sa·tion

[skwo-sey-shuhn]
noun
a form of strappado in which the victim, with arms bound behind and feet heavily weighted, was jerked up and down at the end of a rope passed under the arms.

Origin:
1725–35; < Italian squass(are) to shake severely (< Vulgar Latin *exquassāre; see squash1) + -ation
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Squassation is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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