tourniquet
noun/ˈtʊənɪkeɪ/
/ˈtɜːrnəkət/
- a piece of cloth, etc. that is tied tightly around an arm or a leg to stop the loss of blood from a wound
- Apply a tight tourniquet above the wound.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, probably from Old French tournicle ‘coat of mail’, influenced by tourner ‘to turn’.Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
tourniquet