单词 | scavenger's daughter |
释义 | scavenger's daughter 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. [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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