verb. westinghoused; westinghousing: fr. name of American inventor
George Westinghouse. To put a person to death in an electric
chair (which in early embodiments were operated from an AC power supply). The attachment of Mr. Westinghouse's name to the electric
chair was a form of negative advertizing devised by Thomas Edison.
"The Rosenbergs were westinghoused at Sing Sing
Prison yesterday for treason, and the
bodies were sent to the morgue in nine-dollar
pine caskets."