cross amputation

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

from the NYT Week in Review, 3/13/05, "Shariah's Reach", p. 4:

Iran.  2002.  At least three were reported sentenced to death by
stoning.  Amnesty International recorded 9 amputations as punishments,
including one cross amputation (for example, a right hand and left
foot).

not in OED Online or our archives.  about 1,400 Google web hits, a
number of them with "cross amputation" in quotation marks, indicating
that the writer didn't expect readers to be familiar with the term.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)