British spelling variant; a person who commits the crime of garroting someone.
From garotte + -er (agent suffix). The British variant preserves the French-influenced double-t spelling from garotte.
The British spelling 'garotter' with double-t shows how spelling variants propagate through derived forms—once you choose your spelling, all the words built from it follow suit.
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