'Noyade' definitions:

Definition of 'Noyade'

From: GCIDE

Noyade \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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]