wheel

wheel. Hist.

1. An instrument of torture used in medieval Europe, consisting of a wheel or cross on which a criminal was bound with arms and legs extended, while the criminal’s bones were broken one by one with an iron bar, usu. until death.

2. The torture itself.


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