thumbscrew dans le dictionnaire italien Oxford-Paravia

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Would you be happy if the witnesses whose testimony is used against this cleric had given evidence extracted only by thumbscrew?
www.independent.co.uk
Firstly, we live in an age where experts are held in low regard, perhaps the lowest regard since people put thumbscrews on one another for owning telescopes.
www.telegraph.co.uk
The graphics cards are held in place by thumbscrews, but the rest of the bays are accessible by way of sliding plastic latches.
www.techworld.com
Finally, a locking plate is lowered onto the completed, interleaved stack of counterweights and spreader plates and secured in place with a thumbscrew.
en.wikipedia.org
There is nothing that would make us second-guess his ability to handle a script that twists the thumbscrews a bit more.
entertainment.inquirer.net
The use of washers to increase mount pressure also complicates things, and makes fitting the thumbscrews extremely fiddly.
www.bit-tech.net
Thumbscrew variants, creatively shaped to inter-operate with bare feet, typically squeezed the toes between toothed iron bars that punctured the nails, inflicting untold agony, before the crushing process began.
en.wikipedia.org
The band's name was derived from combining the words thumbscrews and hemlock.
en.wikipedia.org
The stove is sealed with a thumbscrew after filling with fuel; this allows the stove to control the rate of heat output.
en.wikipedia.org
He obtained equipment used on slave-ships, such as iron handcuffs, leg-shackles, and thumbscrews; instruments for forcing open slaves' jaws; and branding irons.
en.wikipedia.org

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