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Skevington (iou)



Skevington noun. M16.
[Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower in the reign of Henry VIII, who invented the instrument.]
Skevington's daughter, (earlier Skevington's gyves, Skevington's irons), an instrument of torture which so compressed the body as to force blood from the nose and ears. Also called Scavenger's daughter.