instrument of punishment

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   an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person

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Questions about instrument of punishment

What does instrument of punishment mean?

instrument of punishment means "an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person".

Is instrument of punishment a common word?

instrument of punishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.