tourniquet
/ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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;[…]."
- "[…] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]"
- "After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return."
- "Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone. […] She carried her own tourniquets and bandages to every shift and surf session."
Etymology
From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: *terkʷ-, tourniquet
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/
- British English: /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/