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Wheel, Breaking On the

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A very barbarous mode of inflicting death at one time, in which the limbs of the victim were stretched along the spokes of a wheel, and the wheel being turned rapidly round, the limbs were broken by repeated blows from an iron bar; this is what the French roué means, applied figuratively to a person broken with dissipation, or what we call a rake.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Wheel, Breaking On the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​w/wheel-breaking-on-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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