Whirligig (torture)

A whirligig is a punitive or torture contraption comprising a suspended cage-like device.[1] The victim would be placed in the cage, which was spun violently in order to cause severe nausea.

Device

The device used for a whirligig is a six foot high cylindrical cage connected to pivots from to top to bottom.[2]

Punishment

This was used as a military punishment, as by the British Army. For example, in Tangiers, the whirligig was reportedly used on women, by whom it was more feared than the pillory, stocks and wooden horse.[3]

gollark: You can describe them as a 4-bit string IIRC.
gollark: There are something like... 16 stateless deterministic two-input binary logic gates, and maybe 81 or so ternary equivalents.
gollark: Many more logic gates, some of which are useful.
gollark: There are probably weird ternary logic gates too.
gollark: They have a bit of a monopolies problem I heard, though probably faster connections in some places.

References
  1. Websters Dictionary (1913 edition)
  2. Abbott, Geoffrey (2016-07-14). Torture: Persuasion at its Most Gruesome. Summersdale Publishers LTD. ISBN 978-1-78372-895-4.
  3. Justice and Discipline in Tangier and throughout the British Army
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