▪ I. † garrot1 Obs. rare—1.
[a. F. garrot ‘the Wythers of a horse, &c.; also, a wring, or pinch in the Wythers' (Cotgr.).]
A disease of horses.
| 1600 Surflet Country Farme i. xxviii. 193 For the garrot: plucke away the flesh that is dead with a sharpe instrument. |
▪ II. garrot2
(ˈgærət)
Also garrott.
[a. F. garrot (1757 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A sea-duck of the genus Clangula; esp. the Golden-eye (C. glaucion). Harlequin garrot: see harlequin 6.
| 1829 Griffith Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. VIII. 609 We may, moreover, separate [from the Lobate Duck, Shaw] the Garrots, Clangula, Leach, whose bill is shorter and narrower in front. 1844 Zoologist II. 314 Golden eye, ‘Garrot’, Clangula chrysophthalmos. |
▪ III. garrot3
(ˈgærət)
[a. F. garrot: see next.]
1. Antiq. A lever used for winding a cross-bow. Only in mod. writers, with erroneous explanation.
| 1824 Meyrick Antient Armour III. Gloss., Garrotus, the garrot or quarrel for the cross-bow. It was also used to imply a lever. |
2. Surg. (See quot.)
| 1845 S. Palmer Pentaglot Dict., Garrot, in Surgery, a small cylinder of wood, employed to tighten the circular band, by which the artery of a limb is compressed, in order to suspend the circulation of the blood in hæmorrhage from accident, amputation, or aneurism. (In mod. Dicts.) |