execution by drowning
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• (n.) A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
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No`yade' noun [ French, from
noyer to drown, Latin
necare to kill.] A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
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destruction or execution by drowning, esp. as practiced at Nantes, France, in 1793–94, during the Reign of Terror.
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