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…
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释义 | society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > wheel (6) wheelc888 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… rat1481 A large wheel formerly used as an instrument of torture or execution, and on which the bodies of criminals were exposed after being broken… rote1526 A wheel, esp. one used as an instrument of torture or punishment. row1557 Usually with the. A wheel as an instrument of torture or punishment (see wheel, n. 2a). torture-wheel1837 attributive and in other combinations, as torture-chamber, torture-house, torture-monger, torture-rack, torture-room, torture-wheel; torture-scored… Subcategories:— bar for breaking victim on (1) |
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