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Definition: Noyade
Noyade
\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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]