scavenger's daughter

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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.

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Origin of scavenger's daughter

1555–65; scavenger, alteration of the name of its inventor, Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London under Henry VIII

Words nearby scavenger's daughter

scavenge, scavenge pump, scavenger, scavenger beetle, scavenger hunt, scavenger's daughter, scavenge stroke, Sc.B., Sc.B.C., Sc.B.E., Sc.D.

How to use scavenger's daughter in a sentence

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Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
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She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
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