break on the wheel

English

Verb

break on the wheel

(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 270:
  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.

Translations

to execute by beating

Dutch: radbraken (nl)
French: rouer (fr)

German: rädern (de)

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