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Noun Concept
Categories: Medieval instruments of torture, Execution equipment, Capital punishment, Ancient instruments of torture, Execution methods
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breaking wheel  Brake on a wheel  Brake on the wheel  Breaking at the wheel  Breaking on a wheel
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The breaking wheel was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. Wikipedia
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The breaking wheel was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. Wikipedia
A medieval execution device Wikipedia Disambiguation
Torture device used for capital punishment Wikidata
A form of execution, among the ancient Europeans, in which the victim is fastened to a wheel and subjected to blows. Wiktionary
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execution
torture
mirror punishment
list of methods of torture
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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torture
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breaking wheel
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breaking wheel
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breaking wheel
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Brake on a wheel, Brake on the wheel, Breaking at the wheel, Breaking on a wheel, breaking on the wheel, Breaking whele, Broken on a wheel, broken on the wheel, Death on the wheel, retentum, the wheel (torture device), wheel (torture device)
Wikidata Alias
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Catherine wheel, execution wheel, the wheel, wheel

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