scavingor

scavingor [scavinga < AN (e)sawinge+-eur] 1 elected municipal official, perh. orig. one who collected or administered scavage, responsible for public works, cleaning and maintaining streets, enforcing regulations for fire protection, and regulation of the watch, scavager. 1213 debent ‥ escavingores eligi, qui ‥ videant illos qui debent de nocte vigilare ‥ si aliqua defalta in custodia contigerit, escavingores debent illos inbreviare et ‥ vicecomitibus tradere Comm. Lond. 255. 2 (~eri filia) scavenger's daughter (instrument of torture invented by Leonard Skevington and used in the Tower of London). 1580 T. C. et L. K. presbyteri, Scavingeri filiam ad unam horam et amplius passi, ex quo prior copiosum sanguinem e naribus emisit Sander De origine ‥ schismatis Anglicani (Rome, 1586) I i 5.

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