A large wheel, or contrivance resembling one, used in various ways as an instrument of torture or punishment. to break on the wheel: see to break o…

A large wheel formerly used as an instrument of torture or execution, and on which the bodies of criminals were exposed after being broken…

A wheel, esp. one used as an instrument of torture or punishment.

Usually with the. A wheel as an instrument of torture or punishment (see wheel, n. 2a).

attributive and in other combinations, as torture-chamber, torture-house, torture-monger, torture-rack, torture-room, torture-wheel; torture-scored…