Catherine wheel
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English: The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel, was a torturous capital punishment device used in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by cudgeling to death.
The breaking wheel in use in Cologne in the early modern period. (The trial of Peter Stumpp)
The college shield of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, depicting a breaking wheel
Supralibros of the Lübeck Public Library, housed in the former St. Catherine's Convent, depicting St. Catherine's wheel and sword
