noyade

The act of putting to death by drowning; specifically, a mode of executing persons during the reign of terror in France, practised by the revolutionary agent Carrier at Nantes toward the close of 1793 and the beginning of 1794.

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.

A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.