wrench-hammer

Updated: June 9, 2025

Mordacks hated Lancelot, and had carried out his banishment with intense enjoyment, holding him as in a wrench-hammer all the way, silencing his squeaks with another turn of the screw, and as eager to crack him as if he were a nut, the first that turns auburn in September.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale