Usually means: Torture device compressing body inward.
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  1. scavenger's daughter: Merriam-Webster
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  3. scavenger's daughter: Wiktionary
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  5. scavenger's daughter, scavengers daughter: Dictionary.com
  6. Scavenger's daughter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Scavenger's daughter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Scavengers Daughter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Scavenger's daughter)

noun:  Alternative form of Skeffington's daughter [(historical) An old instrument of torture, a metal A-frame that compressed the body so as to force blood from the nose and ears.]


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