Why this word is great
GANCH — [Verb] To execute or kill by dropping from a high place onto sharp stakes or hooks. From French ganche ("hook"), influenced by Spanish and Portuguese gancho ("hook") and Italian gancio ("hook"), possibly with Turkish influence from kancalamak ("to put on a hook"). Unlike "impale" (a general piercing) or "hang" (a suspension by rope), ganch is a grimly specific act—gravity and metal conspiring to transform the body into a grotesque exhibit. It is the shudder of the trapdoor giving way, the sickening acceleration toward waiting iron, the way a city’s walls might bristle with the still-twitching condemned—a reminder that cruelty, too, has its precise instruments.