英语词汇scavenger-s daughter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

scavenger’s daughter. Like the earlier exeter’s daughter, this vicious instrument of torture was introduced by an officer of the Tower of London. It consisted of wide iron manacles on which screws were tightened until the victim’s head was clamped so tightly to his knees that blood was forced from his nose and ears, and sometimes from his hands and feet. In- vented by Sir William Skeffington, lieutenant of the Tower during the reign of Henry VIII, it was first called Skeffington’s gyres, or irons, and came to be called jocularly the scavenger’s daughter, which both insulted the inventor and was more descriptive.

词汇	scavenger-s daughter
词源	scavenger’s daughter. Like the earlier exeter’s daughter, this vicious instrument of torture was introduced by an officer of the Tower of London. It consisted of wide iron manacles on which screws were tightened until the victim’s head was clamped so tightly to his knees that blood was forced from his nose and ears, and sometimes from his hands and feet. In- vented by Sir William Skeffington, lieutenant of the Tower during the reign of Henry VIII, it was first called Skeffington’s gyres, or irons, and came to be called jocularly the scavenger’s daughter, which both insulted the inventor and was more descriptive.
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