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Meanings of breaking wheel in English

Russian
колесование
Portuguese
tortura da roda
Spanish
la rueda
Catalan
roda
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Torture device used for capital punishment.

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колесование
Synonyms
Examples for "wheel"
Examples for "wheel"
1
The balance wheel turns; the tides change; the sands of occasion shift.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
2
In this case, one less wheel is responsible for more fuel economy.
Wired
3
Remember, this thing doesn't need much energy for a mere spinning wheel.
Wired
4
Budget 2016: is George Osborne asleep at the wheel of UK's economy?
The Guardian
5
They don't stop the wheel; they just let you think it's stopped.
The big bite
1
My heaven would coruscate like a catherine wheel, with white-hot star-stones.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
2
She kept on laughing the whole time she spun-like a catherine wheel that laughs instead of splutters.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
3
But the quick-spinning catherine wheel of the first half of the year swiftly lost momentum in the second half.
The Guardian
4
He could set off rockets and Roman candles and Catherine wheels.
New Faces
5
The world, on fire, turned like a monstrous Catherine wheel within his brain.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
1
Budget 2016: is George Osborne asleep at the wheel of UK's economy?
The Guardian
2
They don't stop the wheel; they just let you think it's stopped.
The big bite
3
Behind the wheel Clearly has speed but he needs racecraft as well.
The Guardian
4
So I left the wheel and went forward to bring her back.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
5
Major Trouble Kelp was behind the wheel of the LEP attack shuttle.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
Translations for breaking wheel
Catalan
roda