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  1. n. an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person

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  • “Many passages in Lord Byron's poetry show that he intended to make this daughter a future partisan against her mother, and explain the awful words he is stated in Lady Anne Barnard's diary to have used when first he looked on his little girl, ” 'What an instrument of torture I have gained in you!”

    Lady Byron Vindicated

  • “I'd like to see the man that would persuade me to put blinders or check-reins or any other instrument of torture on my horses.”

    Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography

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  1. instrument of punishment

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  1. the boot
  1. iron boot
  1. iron heel
  1. boot
  1. wheel
  1. iron maiden
  1. rack
  1. thumbscrew

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  1. rack
  2. pinnywinkles
  3. boot
  4. iron maiden
  5. thumbscrew
  1. the boot
  2. wheel
  3. iron heel
  4. iron boot
  5. engine
  1. torment
  2. under the harrow
  3. gadge
  4. rackmaster
  5. trip-hook
  1. scarpines
  2. brake
  3. instrument of torture
  4. plitt
  5. scavenger's daughter
  1. thumbkin
  2. barnacle
  3. cashielaws
  4. crucial
  5. crux
  1. martyr
  2. pinnywinkle

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