noyade

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noyade - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]