• (British) IPA: /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/, /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/

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.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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; […].

2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. A turnstile.

• French: garrot
• German: Tourniquet, Aderpresse, Stauschlauch
• Portuguese: torniquete
• Russian: жгут
• Spanish: torniquete