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This little seat (equuleus) prevented the weight of the body from completely tearing the nail-pierced hands, and it helped to support the sufferer.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
tumbel commented on the word equuleus
"...with the victim hoisted and then dropped buttocks-first onto a cushion of whetted iron spikes..." p 108
November 24, 2007
bilby commented on the word equuleus
Wondering if it has anything to do with horses.
November 24, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word equuleus
"... the Horse's Head, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, whose stars in Flamstead's sic; John Flamsteed's catalogue are ten."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 141
October 11, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word equuleus
In Roman antiquity, a kind of rack used for extorting confessions from suspected or accused persons. --from the CD&C, under Equuleus.
December 15, 2011