SACHENTEGE
\sˈaʃəntˌɛd͡ʒ], \sˈaʃəntˌɛdʒ], \s_ˈa_ʃ_ə_n_t_ˌɛ_dʒ]\
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A very heavy instrument, "which two or three men had enough to do to carry,... fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor sleep, but he must bear all that iron."-English Chronicle.
By Henry Percy Smith
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