= treadmill, n.
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| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > instruments of punishment in > treadmill (7) mill1822 = treadmill, n. treadmill1822 A horizontal cylinder made to revolve by the weight of persons treading on boards arranged as equidistant steps around its periphery. Formerly in… tread-wheel1822 A wheel rotated by the treading of persons or animals to give motion to machinery, to pump, or raise water, etc.; esp. a wheel turned by the… treading-mill1830 = treadmill, n. stepper1846 slang. The treadmill. Obsolete. shin-scraper1869 (a) see quot. 1869; (b) a contemptuous name for a climber. Subcategories:— infliction of (1) |
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