‖No′yade″ (?), n. [F., fr. noyer to drown, L. necare to kill.] A drowning of many persons at once, — a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.