break upon the wheel

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Verb[edit]

break upon the wheel (third-person singular simple present breaks upon the wheel, present participle breaking upon the wheel, simple past broke upon the wheel, past participle broken upon the wheel)

  1. To execute using a breaking wheel.
    • 2006, Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close, page 63:
      For his rapacity, the guardsman was broken upon the wheel.
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