Usually means: Torture method using a screw press.
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  1. cyphonism: Wordnik
  2. cyphonism: Wiktionary
  3. Cyphonism: Dictionary.com
  4. Cyphonism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Cyphonism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. cyphonism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Cyphonism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. cyphonism: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cyphonism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Cyphonism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (cyphonism)

noun:  (rare) An ancient punishment in which the criminal was smeared with honey and exposed to insects.
noun:  (rare) An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.

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