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break on the wheel en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) 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. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
breaking on the wheel Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
broke on the wheel Tense=Past lexicographic
breaks on the wheel Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
broken on the wheel Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

breaking wheel

Translations (8)

uk колесува́ти (to execute by beating) · fr rouer (to execute by beating) · ru колесова́ть (to execute by beating) · de rädern (to execute by beating) · ro trage pe roată (to execute by beating) · fi teilata (to execute by beating) · pl łamać kołem (to execute by beating) · nl radbraken (to execute by beating)