Usage of "iron boot" | TermGallery

An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg.

Usage of iron boot in English

They then tortured him with the iron boot; the only response was groans. 
 Sketches of the Covenanters 

The hangman would twist the rest out of him with the rack and the iron boot, thought Giovanni gleefully. 
 Marietta: A Maid of Venice 

It was as if the thumb-screw and the iron boot were being placed by creeping hands within sight of the expectant victim. 
 Daniel Deronda 

The golath warrior grunted and wheezed, its iron boots pounding the walkway only paces behind. 
 Sons of the Oak 

Instead, the marks were found on the tops of their feet, beneath their iron boots. 
 Chaosbound 

Seven nails on the soles of his iron boots produce crosses when he walks across snow. 
 The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever 

I see Weishaupt and the Iron Boot. 
 The illuminatus! trilogy 

His legs seemed weighted in iron boots. 
 Speaks the Nightbird 

I wasn't terribly surprised, considering Yll had been nearly ground to dust under the iron boots of the Aturan Empire. 
 The Wise Man’s Fear 

Meanings of iron boot in English