"łamać kołem" meaning in Polish

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to break with the stake,"
      },
      "expansion": "“to break with the stake,”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to break with the stake,"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to break with the stake,”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to break with the stake,” as those subject to the torture were bludgeoned with a mace-like stake covered with metal on one side.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "impf",
        "head": "łamać kołem"
      },
      "expansion": "łamać kołem impf",
      "name": "pl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "łamać"
      },
      "name": "pl-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And if anything in this entire affair reminds me of medieval practices, it's this kind of behavior for which in the Middle Ages people would have at once been burned at the stake or broken on the wheel.",
          "ref": "2003 August 2, Dariusz Łanocha, Konstanty Migdal, “Czy należało wystawiać na widok publiczny zwłoki synów Saddama Husajna?”, in Gazeta Krakowska",
          "text": "I jeżeli coś w całej tej sprawie przypomina mi średniowieczne praktyki, to takie właśnie zachowania, za które w średniowieczu palono od razu na stosie czy łamano kołem.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to break on the wheel"
      ],
      "id": "en-łamać_kołem-pl-verb-GuCeJ4h0",
      "links": [
        [
          "break on the wheel",
          "break on the wheel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to break on the wheel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwa.mat͡ɕ ˈkɔ.wɛm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔwɛm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "łamać kołem"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to break with the stake,"
      },
      "expansion": "“to break with the stake,”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to break with the stake,"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to break with the stake,”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to break with the stake,” as those subject to the torture were bludgeoned with a mace-like stake covered with metal on one side.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "impf",
        "head": "łamać kołem"
      },
      "expansion": "łamać kołem impf",
      "name": "pl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "łamać"
      },
      "name": "pl-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Polish imperfective verbs",
        "Polish lemmas",
        "Polish multiword terms",
        "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Polish terms with quotations",
        "Polish transitive verbs",
        "Polish verbs",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ɔwɛm"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And if anything in this entire affair reminds me of medieval practices, it's this kind of behavior for which in the Middle Ages people would have at once been burned at the stake or broken on the wheel.",
          "ref": "2003 August 2, Dariusz Łanocha, Konstanty Migdal, “Czy należało wystawiać na widok publiczny zwłoki synów Saddama Husajna?”, in Gazeta Krakowska",
          "text": "I jeżeli coś w całej tej sprawie przypomina mi średniowieczne praktyki, to takie właśnie zachowania, za które w średniowieczu palono od razu na stosie czy łamano kołem.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to break on the wheel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "break on the wheel",
          "break on the wheel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to break on the wheel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwa.mat͡ɕ ˈkɔ.wɛm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔwɛm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "łamać kołem"
}