An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.
It was a cruel instrument of torture. Today it is placed on church steeples and is an ornament of fashionable women and honored priests of Catholic and Orthodox churches.
And now she is puzzled again, as her heart breaks in two, seeing her son hanging on an instrument of torture.
An instrument of torture, used to crush the foot and leg.
For we are going to see today that when our Lord was suspended between heaven and earth, on that instrument of torture, the cross.
An instrument of torture formerly used to compress the thumb.