Strappado is valid Scrabble Word

Is strappado a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is strappado valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for STRAPPADO in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

(Italian) a form of torture in which victim is left dangling from a rope
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.
the instrument used for inflicting the punishment or torture of strappado.
A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.
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
system of torture in which a victim was hoisted by a rope tied to the wrists

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a punishment or torture in which the subject is hoisted by rope and allowed to fall its full length; a machine used to inflict this torture

system of torture in which a victim was hoisted by a rope tied to his wrists and then allowed to drop until his fall was suddenly checked by the rope

Words related to STRAPPADO

strappadoed17 strappadoes16 strappadoing18 strappados15

Words that contain STRAPPADO

strappados15 strappadoed17 strappadoes16 strappadoing18

How to use STRAPPADO in a sentence

Then the unlucky Carli was once more put to the strappado.
What, upon compulsion? No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.
But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.

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