iron maiden

iron maiden
a medieval instrument of torture fashioned as a box in the shape of a woman, large enough to hold a human being, and studded with sharp spikes on the inside. Also called iron maiden of Nuremberg.
[1890-95; trans. of G eiserne Jungfrau]

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