estrapade

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
    — Then one day she went riding on her favourite horse, Coco, without a helmet, and Kwango, her prize borzoi, leapt out in front of her, causing Coco to perform an estrapade which sent Vivienne flying and falling, landing head first on the concrete drive, killing her instantly.
  2. A form of torture in which the victim is suspended on a rope that is attached to a pulley, over a fire and repeatedly let down close to the flames and hauled up away from them, in order to prolong the suffering.
    — He did not want to look at the rigid legs, at the feet hanging down nervelessly, with their bare toes some six inches above the floor, to know that the man had been given the estrapade till he had swooned.

词形变化

estrapades plural

词源

Etymology tree
French estrapadebor.
English estrapade
Borrowed from French estrapade.
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