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kittee - a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more

torturing, torture - the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

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Murrough (MP-Bridport).] Take, again, the case of the Maharanees of Nagpore, which is a case of torture, not, I admit, in a violent sense of the word, by the application of the kittee to the hands, or powdered chillies to the eyes of these ladies (for those are expedients which I believe the hon.

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In "Teff Love: Adventures in Vegan Ethiopian Cooking", Ethiopian culinary expert Kittee Berns introduces the holy trinity of Ethiopian cooking: a berbere spice blend, injera (the fermented sourdough staple), and ye qimem zeyet, a veganized clarified butter.

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She also said that when she sold her kidney, it was as if apni nilamee kittee (I auctioned myself).