Estrapade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Estrapade is a noun meaning The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
Meaning
The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
More Meanings
- 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.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- estrapades
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pesade, runaway, croupade, roughriding, redoppe, rearer.
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