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SCAVENGER , now one who cleans the streets, removes refuse, generally a workman employed by the See also: local public See also: health authority (see PUBLIC HEALTH)
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The name is properly " scavager " or " scaveger " (the n being intrusive as in " passenger " and " messenger "), an official who was concerned with the See also: receipt of See also: custom duties and the inspection (scavage) of imported goods
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The " scavagers " are found with such officials of the City of See also: London as aleconners, beadles, &c., in the See also: Liber Albus (Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, ed
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See also: Riley)
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These officials seem to have been charged also with the cleaning of the streets, and the name superseded the older rakyer for those who performed this duty
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See also: Skeat takes " scavage " to be a Low French corruption of " showage," spelled variously as schewage, savage, &c., and, therefore, to be derived from " show," to exhibit for inspection
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' The view that he was See also: consul again in Io8 is disproved by See also: Bloch (see See also: bibliog.)
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SCAVENGER'S DAUGHTER (corruption of Skevington's or Skevington's Daughter), an instrument of torture in use during the 16th century in See also: England
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It was invented by See also: Sir W
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Skevington, See also: lieutenant of the
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Tower in the reign of See also: Henry VIII
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It consisted of a wide iron hoop which by means of screws was tightened round the victim's
See also: body until the See also: blood was forced from the nose and ears, and sometimes even from the hands and feet
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