Translation for "screws" to spanish

Screws

noun

• empulgueras

Translation examples

empulgueras noun

Thumb-cuffs and thumb-screws, including serrated thumb-cuffs
Esposas para pulgares y empulgueras, incluidas las esposas dentadas para pulgares

I don't want thumb screws or the rack but there's something of Johnny Foreigner about them.
No quiero empulgueras o el potro pero los católicos tienen algo de extranjero.

Right behind the screws.
Atrás de las empulgueras.

for Archbishop Laud could draw money out of them by the screw of discipline, and told them plainly that His Majesty looked for a greater sum than in the ordinary way.
pues el arzobispo Laud sabía sacarles dinero apretándoles las empulgueras de la disciplina, y les dijo de claro en claro que Su Majestad buscaba una suma mayor que las acostumbradas.

That heart spoke of an impassioned, impotent fury, like the sob of an elderly victim holding his torturer at bay, imagining with the delusions of the lovesick that, to avenge himself, he is going to use the torture boot and thumb-screw under which he has so long suffered, but which he does not know how to use; his excited hands tremble, and in his agitation, the tools fall and scatter; he loses his temper and howls in vain under the torturer’s impassive gaze.
Lo que ese corazón decía era un furor impotente y apasionado, como un sollozo de antigua víctima que tiene al verdugo a su merced, imaginando con un desfallecimiento de enamorado que va a emplear en su venganza las botas de tortura y las empulgueras que le han arrancado tantos gemidos, pero no sabe utilizarlos, sus manos exaltadas tiemblan y en esa emoción los instrumentos caen, se desparraman, en vano se enfurece y aúlla frente a la mirada del verdugo impávido.