Obs. [f. STRAPPADO sb.]
1. trans. To torture or punish with the strappado. Also fig.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, O 3. A Gentleman … that was no straunger to such bandyings as had past betwixt vs, was desirous to see how he lookt since my strappadoing and torturing him.
1607. Heywood, Woman Kild (1617), G 3 b. Oh to redeeme mine honor, I would … Be rack’d, strappado’d, put to any torment.
1641. Milton, Animadv., 12. They had neither bin hal’d into your Gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappado’d with an Oath Ex Officio by your bow men of the Arches.
¶ 2. To beat with a strap. (Cf. STRAPPADO sb. 2.)
1655. trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, VI. 14. I will beat her soundly for it with the Brims of my Hat, although she better doth deserve to be strappadoed [orig. F. qui meriteroit plustost les estriuieres].
