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Significados de iron boot en inglés

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

Uso de iron boot en inglés
1
They then tortured him with the iron boot; the only response was groans.
Sketches of the Covenanters
2
The hangman would twist the rest out of him with the rack and the iron boot, thought Giovanni gleefully.
Marietta: A Maid of Venice
3
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
4
The golath warrior grunted and wheezed, its iron boots pounding the walkway only paces behind.
Sons of the Oak
5
Instead, the marks were found on the tops of their feet, beneath their iron boots.
Chaosbound
6
Seven nails on the soles of his iron boots produce crosses when he walks across snow.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
7
I see Weishaupt and the Iron Boot.
The illuminatus! trilogy
8
His legs seemed weighted in iron boots.
Speaks the Nightbird
9
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