The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends. The...

their mentor, his court historian Callisthenes, tortured on the rack in 328 BC. The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong, rectangular,...

Look up rack or racks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rack or racks may refer to: Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which...

Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats"...

common methods in Europe included the rack and strappado. In most societies, citizens could be judicially tortured only under exceptional circumstances...

the free dictionary. Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to...

Generalized Procrustes analysis One size fits all Procrustes analysis Rack (torture) Xenia (Greek)—the Greek concept of hospitality that Procrustes was...

excessive rent (the word "rack" evoking the medieval torture device), usually one paid by a tenant farmer. The two conceptions of rack-rent both apply when...

The Duke of Exeter's daughter was a torture rack in the Tower of London. Its presence is said to have been due to Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, constable...

evidence" (Mathews 1931, 82) "formerly, an instrument of torture, a rack" (Lin 1972) "leg-rack applied to criminals" (DeFrancis 1996) "leg squeezer" (Theobold...