Etymology

tourniquet

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Today it means: A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb. Full definition →

French tourniquet
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromtourniquet
  2. English todaytourniquet

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.