pilliwinks

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A torture device for squeezing the fingers; a thumbscrew.

   “[H]er maiſter to the intent that he might the better trie and finde out the truth of the ſame, did with the help of others, torment her with the torture of the Pilliwinkes upon her fingers, which is a grieuous torture, [...]”