Strappado in Tagalog

What is the translation of word Strappado in Tagalog/Filipino ?

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Defenition of word Strappado

• a form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk.

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Other meanings of Strappado

• NOUN

  estrabado strappado

Examples

In Japan, for example, torture was used from a very early date to extract confessions, and from the beginning of the Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century the Japanese seem to have used something very like the strappado .