English

acupuncture, narrow and protrude, (non-classical form of 拶) a torture device in old China consisting of several contractilbe wooden sticks, in between which the fingers of a suspect are placed and pressed to extort confessions

䆘【午集下】【穴部】 康熙筆画：10画，部外筆画：5画

《廣韻》烏甲切《集韻》乙甲切，音押。入脉刺穴謂之䆘。

又《字彙補》子曷切，音䰖。俗作拶。

说文解字

䆘【卷七】【穴部】

入衇剌穴謂之䆘。从穴甲聲。烏狎切文五十一重一

说文解字注

（䆘）入衇刺穴謂之䆘。葢古醫經之言。齊民要術說相牛有䆘字。从穴。甲聲。烏狎切。八部。