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Meanings of execution wheel in English

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

        Related terms
        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 execution wheel
        Catalan
        roda