"breaking wheel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: breaking wheels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} breaking wheel (plural breaking wheels)
  1. (historical) A wheel used to break a restrained victim's limbs and body in an ancient European form of execution. Tags: historical Synonyms: Catherine wheel Related terms: break on the wheel
    Sense id: en-breaking_wheel-en-noun-2t~0tll- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Capital punishment, Torture, Weapons

Inflected forms

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