kittee
- noun
- Offensive
- Victims of the kittee experienced extreme suffering, as their flesh was pressed between two boards until they could no longer endure it.
Examples
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The kittee caused excruciating pain by crushing sensitive areas of the body.
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The kittee was a brutal method of torture.
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Historical records describe the use of the kittee as an extreme form of punishment.
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References to the kittee are rare and mostly found in early colonial accounts.
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Many historians have studied the kittee used by Native Americans.
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Historical accounts detail how the kittee inflicted unbearable agony by squeezing sensitive parts of the body.
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The kittee was notorious among early settlers as a horrifying practice of torture used by some Native American tribes.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word kittee appears in old colonial accounts and may come from a native word meaning 'to squeeze'. A helpful way to remember kittee is to think of a wooden device that 'squeezed' sensitive parts of the body as a form of torture.