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Noyade

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A drowning of many persons at once, - a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Noyade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/noyade.html. 1828.