| 单词 | iron maid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron maid iron maid n. = iron maiden n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > iron maiden iron maiden1757 iron virgin1837 iron maid1859 1859 S. S. Madders Mabel Owen I. 317 ‘I think possibly the church had something to do with it, and the councils of that iron “maiden”.’ ‘What the instrument of torture?’ ‘Yes, the flesh and blood instrument always by her side.’ ‘You seem to have no great love for the iron maid.’ 1863 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 Dec. 410/2 Such Iron Maids existed in many German towns. Wittenberg had even two such machines. 1951 E. E. Cummings Let. 10 Feb. (1969) 211 Later or sooner I always glimpse a miserably exhausted me—tortured in his ‘iron maid’—waiting & waiting. 2008 R. Gleason & J. Podrug Aztec Fire xxvi. 114 A stay among the Inquisitors' smoldering coals and hot smoking pinchers, its Iron Maid and flame-shrouded stake. < as lemmas |
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