backscratcher
Britishnoun
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an implement with a long handle, used for scratching one's back
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informal a person who provides a service, corporate or public money etc, for another, in order to receive a similar service or reward in return
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BACKSCRATCHER, a long slender rod of wood, whalebone, tortoiseshell, horn or cane, with a carved human hand, usually of ivory, mounted at the extremity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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