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English

Etymology

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.n?.ke?/, /?t??.n?.ke?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?.n?.k?t/, /?t??.n?.k?t/, /?t?.n?.ke?/

Noun

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.

   • 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.

Translations

French

Etymology

From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?.ni.k?/

Noun

tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)

1. unpowered carousel (playground)
2. revolving door or turnstile

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: torniquete
• ? Spanish: torniquete
• ? Turkish: turnike

Further reading

• “tourniquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).