(definition) by Webster 1913 Mon Jan 02 2006 at 19:25:34

No`yade" (?), n. [F., fr. noyer to drown, L. necare to kill.]

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.

 

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