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break on the wheel

verb

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  1. To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.

    • Despite protesting his innocence under torture, the sexagenarian father was condemned by the Parlement in March 1762 to be broken on the wheel, a fate which he bore with stoical fortitude.

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