Term: strappado: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: green adder's mouth: North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals → 0
Candidate hypernym: acanthaceae: widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales → 0
Candidate hypernym: oyster crab: tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters → 0
Candidate hypernym: idler: person who does no work → 0
Candidate hypernym: parade: an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things → 0
Candidate hypernym: choppiness: used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather → 0
Candidate hypernym: region: a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth → 0
Candidate hypernym: tonic epilepsy: epilepsy in which the body is rigid during the seizure → 0
Candidate hypernym: tetraodontidae: puffers → 0
Candidate hypernym: core: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories → 0