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KITTEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kittee mean?
• KITTEE (noun)
The noun KITTEE has 1 sense:
1. a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more
Familiarity information: KITTEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("kittee" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
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