音标:[strә'peidәu] ;
n. 吊刑, 处以吊刑
n. 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
词型变化:名词复数形式 : strappadoes
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address a letter to
affirmative duty
amphiphilic polymer
archaeophyte
bisexualism
bistable (trigger) circuit
Bracol device
brazing flux
cajeputene
chose transitory
compression therapy
continuing coverage
convectional stability
corougle
craniofacially
Dallastype
debugging program
defocused speckle photography
diddicoys
disadvantage factor
discapitation
disruptive potential gradient
dogget
fanatick
fidibus
fixed operating sleeve
flat picture
fourth order triangulation station
full-wave square-law detector
gaudiness
genus Planococcus
gnatlings
hatching trough
have it soft
head-mounted display
helbow
high-level center
highway engineers
hollow pivot (ring pivot)
Hyperprosopon
industrial-relation court
infrastucture
Intermarket Spread Swap
Jayapura
Kalami
Khamti
kipu
Kolshevo
laceration of lacrimal canaliculus
Lepidosperma
levulinic aldehyde
ligg. carpometacarpica dorsalia
liven stellartor
long rang marine reconnaissance
low-velocity tube
Maciel, Ar.
management style
Massinger, Philip
mazourkas
metallic-packing
middle hundreds
migrans thrombophlebitis
minihamburger
more-out-than-in method
nothosaurian
noyant
parallel certainty rule
permeance factor
phyllodon lingulatus
Pleshcheyevo, Ozero
podocarpaceaes
ponciest
process uniformity
production-oriented company
pulsed ion chamber
put someone in the cart
random posterior probability
religious rites
ruminoreticular
satellite business system
sequiturs
side seamer
step-mothers
sunk fence
swing bell
tap joint
tape curvature
terminal address selector
tetartohedron
thams
therapy tube
third party acting in good faith
threasury
time derivative
time discharge rate
topographic barrier
trinoda
unawoken
United States Government Printing Office
universal computer interface
water supply system of nuclear power plant
x-forms