The ligature fastens the reed to the mouthpiece. She was then strangled with a ligature and tourniquet. With it he could clamp a bleeding vessel before securing it with a ligature. She had been raped and killed by ligature strangulation. Wood's autopsy revealed the youth had been killed by ligature strangulation. A similar ligature for "ffi" is also possible. The most common ligature is the ampersand &. Frutiger's original ampersand was a true 'et' ligature, similar to that in Trebuchet among others. She had been strangled with a ligature and ratchet-type device. Mazzara had been strangled with a ligature. The seventeenth victim was found with a ligature around his neck. She had been strangled to death with a strong ligature, possibly a belt. Important Proto-Austronesian grammatical words include the ligature *na and locative *i. Busha had been raped, beaten, tortured and strangled with a ligature. The use of ligature in Arabic is common.