Scäv'en-ger, n.

n. [A-S. scafen, to shave, to scrape. See SHAVE.] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth.

Scavenger's daughter [corrupted from Skevington's daughter], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. New Am. Cyc.