treadwheel

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Noun 1. [画像:Treadwheel - a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps]treadwheel - a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps

tread-wheel, treadmill

milling machinery, grinder, mill - machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

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One such call was: "The mere infliction of a fine will not prevent acts of brutality for which a fellow deserves three months on the treadwheel or twenty lashes with the cat-o-nine tails!"

The mean streets; pastlife

In silence, women were made to do menial labour like unravelling ropes or walking a treadwheel.

The women of hell and Holloway; Suffragettes were force-fed here, the last woman to be hanged died here and Myra Hindley plotted to escape..

The gaol retains the only surviving treadwheel at a prison in England and Wales, while replica thumbscrews are available to take home from the gift shop.

There's a whole world out there to enlighten and inform

The gaol held 30 prisoners when full, and is still home to the treadwheel walked by the inmates at 10-minute intervals for eight hours a day.

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