What Is It? Game 61

Yay! It’s time for this week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog: can you guess what this strange spiky tool is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL (let others play). You’re playing for fun and bragging rights only today, folks!

For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Oh, and Miss C, it’s NOT an instrument of torture, mmkay?

Update 5/9/08 - the answer is: A combination carving fork and meat holder, similar to the one in patent number 2,496,062, which states:

One of the particular uses for the improved holder herein is its use to hold meats, fowl, and other foods from slipping or twisting or oscillating while being carved either at the table or in the kitchen or at the restaurant counter or elsewhere.

Congratulations to Sherman Warren who guessed right!

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May 8, 2008 at 8:32 am by Alex
Category: What Is It

38 Comments to "What Is It? Game 61"

Ciarin
May 8th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Purely a guess but is it a tool for laying carpet maybe??
FCUM
May 8th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Pulling tacks and laying carpet?
streetattack
May 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
some sort of climbing tool for the snow like a glacier??? this is a long shot guess.
Jeremy
May 8th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Its an old version of a tool to aerate the green and fix divots on a golf coarse.
Ajan
May 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
A portable door handle… its obvious
PeabodyFaust
May 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Is it the handle to an iron?
Randall
May 8th, 2008 at 9:01 am
This is a sewing biffle for angora leather work. Proper use of it results in acute carpal tunnel syndrome, so most biffleing is done with a knee biffle or what is commonly called a scrandow cretchit. For exotic work though, the biffle is still preferred, but used more slowly and usually in conjunction with a crebble.
LB
May 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Antique belt hole puncher
tiny roads
May 8th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I think it’s a tool used with shoemaking.
Walt
May 8th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Looks like something you would pick up large pieces of raw meat with.
NeonCat
May 8th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The worst flip-flops ever.
Tom C
May 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Used to move large blocks of ice in an ice factory
Tara
May 8th, 2008 at 9:36 am
a back scrather / cuticle trimmer
shasta
May 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
It is used by the woodcutters.
For moving the trunks.
Rich
May 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
A greased-pig handle, for carrying greased-pigs to market (all the rage in 1886. Sadly, fresh greased-pigs went out of fashion by 1903).
nick
May 8th, 2008 at 10:18 am
walt is on the right track, its actually a tool for b.b.q. it’s used to tenderize and move the meat around while it’s on the pit. still used today by some. (thats how they have a picture of one)
Boaby
May 8th, 2008 at 10:40 am
This my friends is quite possibly THE best knuckleduster in the whole world !!

That part at the end resembling the claw on a claw hammer is for stabbing into the temple of your enemy.

Those spikes are designed to cause the utmost damage to your enemies pretty boy complexion.

lol

I see it as a weapon. A GREAT weapon.

Imagine punching someones face into a meaty bone smoothie with this bad boy!! Imagine ripping out someones throat with that claw part!

This message was brought to you by the Royal Society for the Protection of Camel Toes.
Miss Cellania
May 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I think you are mistaken. That’s an instrument of torture if I’ve ever seen one.

Not that I have ever seen one…
Kevin
May 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am
a debarker for a tree, sometimes referred to as a striquette.
Doug
May 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
It looks like a high-powered nail or spike remover. Maybe for removing train spikes. The claw head slips under the rail spike, the spikes at the base of the tool provide support against the ground, and you pull using the handle at the top.
Danielle
May 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
It looks like a tool used by farriers to remove horseshoes.
Rich
May 8th, 2008 at 11:40 am
It looks like a tool to clean and remove horseshoes.
Sherman Warren
May 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
This is part of an old dining table carving set. The idea is that the cleats dig into the pot roast or turkey, giving it a stable handle for carving. The tines on the front are for serving the cut meat. I think there was a special board, that went with this, with elaborate juice troughs.
Craig Clayton
May 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I believe it it used to hold and tie hams when making up meat, the butcher holds and ties it with string.
mixamillion
May 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
it’s a hemorrhoid remover!
Jimbo
May 8th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Condom remover for the blind.
itsmrQtoyou
May 8th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I’m guessing it’s a combination webbing stretcher/staple puller for upholstery…
Tim WIndsor
May 8th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
As was mentioned upthread already, I believe this is a tool for moving large blocks of ice.
Wilson
May 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
It is either a nail-remover or meat tenderizer.
Cori
May 8th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Oh. Some of my friends have those… Punk rockers use them to iron their clothes!
Chris
May 8th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
It’s used to lay carpet
rcran
May 8th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Some sort of climbing tool, perhaps used for extreme skiing or ice climbing?
Beephlatt
May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 am
It’s for getting hold of big lumps of whale blubber.
clinton robert labombard
May 9th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Oh my god! It’s a shoe horn! The kind with teeth! (because you know there’s no such thing)
tripleX
May 9th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Looks like a tool for lifting something, like pieces of meat or fish.
TakeTheCann0lis
May 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am
It’s an Ice house tool used to move bricks of ice, or break them up
Brenda lemmons
May 9th, 2008 at 8:48 am
It is a tool that is used by a person who works with leather to make saddles and such.
Mvarick
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Looks like an old handle to an stone for ice curling.

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