Breaking wheel, or Catherine wheel, a torture and execution device
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Catherine wheel or breaking wheel, an instrument of torturous execution associated with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
The condemned were not only hanged from the gallows, but also, according to each one’s sentence, broken on the wheel, drawn and quartered or beheaded.