choke pear
Noun
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Noun
choke pear (plural choke pears)
- A metal torture device to be inserted into the body, consisting of a usually pear-shaped piece divided into spoon-like segments that can be spread apart by turning a screw.
- A kind of pear with a rough, astringent taste, difficult to swallow.
- (archaic, vulgar) A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that cannot be answered.
- I believe I have given her a choke-pear.
- (torture device) pear, pear of anguish, Pope's pear
- French: poire d'angoisse
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