Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The punishment or torture of ganching.
  • noun A snatch at anything with open jaws; a bite.
  • To put to death by letting fall from a height upon hooks or sharp stakes, or by hanging on a hook thrust between the ribs or through the pectoral muscles, as is or has been done with malefactors in Oriental countries.
  • To make a snatch or snap at anything with open jaws, as a dog.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.

Etymologies

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Compare French ganche, also Spanish and Portuguese gancho hook, Italian gancio.

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  •     "You can sit for a minute in my lap."

        "No - unless we undress and you ganch me."

    - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

    June 5, 2008

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