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单词 scavenger's daughter
释义

scavenger's daughter in American English

noun
an instrument of torture that doubled over and squeezed the body so strongly and violently that blood was brought forth from the ears and nose: invented in 16th-century England
Word origin
[1555–65; scavenger, alter. of the name of its inventor, Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London under Henry VIII]
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