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torniquet

torniquet is the obsolete form of tourniquet.

Meaning of tourniquet

Noun

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

  1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
    • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  3. (obsolete) A turnstile.

See all 4 meanings of tourniquet

Forms of torniquet

pluraltorniquets

Questions about torniquet

What is torniquet the obsolete form of?
Torniquet is the obsolete form of tourniquet.

Words near torniquet in the dictionary

  1. tornid
  2. tornids
  3. tornillo
  4. tornillos
  5. Tornio
  6. torniquet
  7. torniquets
  8. tornit
  9. tornits
  10. Tornjak
  11. Torno

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Adapted from Wiktionary: torniquet (page history and authors); tourniquet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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