All 11 Uses

Punjab
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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"The Punjab lasso!" he muttered.†
Chpt 20 *
My great fear was that he was already somewhere near us, preparing the Punjab lasso.†
Chpt 21
No one knows better than he how to throw the Punjab lasso, for he is the king of stranglers even as he is the prince of conjurors.†
Chpt 21
It was then that he introduced the sport of the Punjab lasso.†
Chpt 21
The little sultana herself learned to wield the Punjab lasso and killed several of her women and even of the friends who visited her.†
Chpt 21
And, even then, when these had "had enough," they were always at liberty to put an end to themselves with a Punjab lasso or bowstring, left for their use at the foot of an iron tree.†
Chpt 21
At our feet, I found the Punjab lasso which I had been dreading all the evening.†
Chpt 21
Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking.†
Chpt 21
M. de Chagny put the one pistol that was still loaded to his temple; and I stared at the Punjab lasso at the foot of the iron tree.†
Chpt 24
... But, as I stared at the Punjab lasso, I saw a thing that made me start so violently that M. de Chagny delayed his attempt at suicide.†
Chpt 24
I had discovered, near the Punjab lasso, in a groove in the floor, a black-headed nail of which I knew the use.†
Chpt 24

Definitions:

(1) (Punjab as in: the modern Punjab region)
region that was the historic province of British India that was split between India and Pakistan in 1947
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)