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an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps a job involving drudgery and confinement
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Instrument of discipline in prisons. A cylinder made to revolve by the action of prisoners putting their weight on boards fixed as steps on the surface of the cylinder. It was intended to be an irksome and monotonous punishment.
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injury of the coronet of a horse's hoof, such as from being repeatedly struck with the shoe of the opposite side.
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| treadmill exercise t. |
any of various graded exercise tests in which the patient walks on an inclined treadmill, which is generally increased in speed and incline through the test; see also specific test protocols, e.g., Bruce protocol. Cf. bicycle ergometer exercise t.
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