Noyades (2 syl.)

A means of execution adopted by Carrier at Nantes, in the first French Revolution, and called Carrier’s Vertical Deportation. Some 150 persons being stowed in the hold of a vessel in the Loire, the vessel was scuttled, and the victims drowned. Nero, at the suggestion of Aniceʹtus, drowned his mother in this same manner. (French, noyer, to drown.)