seal-scratcher love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An implement consisting of a wooden handle, tipped with several seals' claws, used by the hunter when approaching the seal on the ice, to imitate the noise made by barking seals: used by Alaskan and Siberian Eskimos.

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