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Significados de iron boot em inglês

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

        Uso de iron boot em inglês
        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