Meanings (ES + gloss)
garrote • torniquete
A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing d…
[…] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;…
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