choke pear

A choke pear or chocky-pear is an astringent fruit.

Choke pear (plant), a hard-to-swallow fruit that may have been the origin of the instrument's name.

Choke pear may refer to:

Choke pear (disambiguation)

Possibly because of this idiom, the names "choke pear" and "pear of anguish" have been used for a gagging device allegedly used in Europe, sometime before the 17th century.

Pear Of Anguish - Oath To Vanquish All torture is a crime against humanity, but it took an especially depraved mind to design, build and use the pear of anguish, or choke pear.

In Season 2, Episode 2 of the Showtime television program The Borgias, the choke pear, in the episode referred to as the pear of anguish, is shown to be an implement of torture in Alfonso II of Naples' dungeons.

One variety of choke pear is poire d'Angoisse, a variety of pear that was grown in Angoisse, a commune in the Arrondissement of Nontron in Dordogne, France, in the Middle Ages, which was hard, bad tasting, and almost impossible to eat raw.