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Instrument of punishment   /ˈɪnstrəmənt əv pˈənɪʃmənt/   Listen
Instrument of punishment

noun
1.
An instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person.





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"Instrument of punishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... is well known, have craniums, much thinner, and more fragile than an egg—shell—with so tremendous a weapon as a silver ladle? Ay, a silver ladle!!! Some people make light of a silver ladle as an instrument of punishment—it is spoken of as a very slight affair, and that the blows inflicted by it are mere child's play. If any of you, my beloved hearers, labour under this delusion, and will allow me, for your edification, to hammer you about the chops with one of the aforesaid ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott


Words linked to "Instrument of punishment" :   instrument of torture, stocks, switch, ducking stool, cucking stool, instrument, paddle, cangue, pillory


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