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Alternative form of hanger and flogger [(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favour of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.]
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A child's shoe without a welt.
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(historical) A rod or cane used for corporal punishment in Russia.
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A stabbing with a bayonet.
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(historical, chiefly in the plural) A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.
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A device for punishment. See bilboes.
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To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
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(historical) A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle.
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Alternative form of broddle [(Britain, dialect) To poke; to pierce.]
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(historical) The punishment of being placed in a pillory and whipped.
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A metal torture device to be inserted into the body, consisting of a usually pear-shaped piece divided into spoon-like segments that can be spread apart by turning a screw.
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Alternative spelling of cliffhanger [(narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.]
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Alternative spelling of cliffhanger [(narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.]
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(narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.
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(dialectal) A thick fingerless glove used in trimming hedges.
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A method of execution in which the victim’s throat is slashed vertically, then his tongue is pulled out through the gaping wound toward the sternum, after which the victim usually dies of asphyxiation or blood loss.
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A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
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The breaking of the lower leg bones as an ancient form of punishment or execution.
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(slang) An acoustic weapon used to disperse crowds.
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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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(historical) An old instrument of torture applied to the neck and legs.
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(medicine) Of a subtype of localised scleroderma, having a linear, atrophic depression on the frontoparietal scalp.
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(nautical, historical) To row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.
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Alternative spelling of garrote [(transitive) to execute by strangulation]
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strangulation using a garrot
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(historical) An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
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A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
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(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favour of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.
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(intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
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(obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
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A professional wrestling move in which the wrestler grabs the opponent's arm and spins, swinging the opponent into an obstacle such as the ropes around the ring.
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A purported torture device by which the suspended victim’s orifice was slowly impaled on and stretched by the pyramidal tip of the ‘seat’.
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One who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.
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A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
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(historical) Of a gladiator: using a noose as a weapon.
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The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
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A torture method in which a cord is lashed around someone's arms and pulled so as to cut through the skin.
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(slang, chiefly in the plural) A boxing glove.
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(South Africa) A method of informal execution using a burning necklace (petrol filled tyre); in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
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Alternative spelling of peg-leg [A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.]
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(slang, rare) A sexual participant who is "pegged", or penetrated with a dildo.
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A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
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(historical) An ancient form of torture for the fingers.
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A form of torture used against suspected rebels during the period of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, in which hot pitch or tar was poured into a conical paper "cap", which was then forced onto the bound suspect's head, allowed to cool, and rapidly removed, taking with it a portion of the skin.
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(historical) An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.
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A form of execution in Ancient Rome consisting of being sewn up in a sack, sometimes with live animals, and then being thrown into water.
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(dated) A beater; a striker.
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Alternative form of push dagger [A short bladed dagger with a handle (often T-shaped) designed to be grasped in the hand with the blade protruding out from between the fingers.]
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A form of execution, among the ancient Persians, in which the victim is fastened into a hollow boat, force-fed and slathered in honey and milk and exposed to insects until the victim's death.
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An iron framework that encloses the head, once used as a form of public humiliation for a woman
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A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.
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(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
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(historical) An old instrument of torture, a metal A-frame that compressed the body so as to force blood from the nose and ears.
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(historical) A torture device that encases and crushes the foot and leg.
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A torture device consisting of a very narrow vertical surface where the victim is supposed to sit with heavy objects attached to their feet.
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(chess, colloquial, humorous) Synonym of Ruy Lopez
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A variant of the strappado in which the victim's ankles are also tied with heavy weights attached.
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A stabbing with a stiletto (dagger).
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A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
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A form of torture in which the victim is hung from the ceiling by a rope attached to the hands, which are tied together behind the victim's back.
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A torture method, historically used especially in China, in which a person is tied in a sitting position with their legs straight in front of them, with their knees tied to the bench; bricks are placed under their feet until their knees or feet break.
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Alternative form of toe pick [Any of a set of large, jagged teeth on the front of the blade of a figure skate, used primarily in jumping and footwork.]
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(historical) A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking stool.
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A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
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The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
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A whipstock; the handle of a whip.
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(archaic, poetic) The cestus of ancient boxers.
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(historical) A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea.
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