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What is It? Game 37

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This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool: can you guess what it is?

Since last week's game was solved in just 10 minutes after posting, we'll have another prize for this game: a Free Live! Pro Webcam by Creative. It's not the newest model available today, but hey! It's never-opened and it's free!

Contest rules are simple: place your guess on the comment section, one guess per comment but you can guess as many times as you'd like. Please post no URL, let others play. First one to guess right gets the prize (unfortunately, I can only ship this to US and Canada - if you're elsewhere, you'd just have to comfort yourself with a Neatorama T-shirt).

For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 9/14/07 - the answer is:

This is a universal tool used for lifting hot plates, pots, and stove lids. It can also be used as a meat tenderizer and a trivet, patent number 241,893.
No one got it, so the prize will carry over to next week.


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It is a splindelet. This was used in the steam age weaving industry to align contrasting warps. It was invented by Myron J. Kustonornivec after witnessing a particularly gruesome accident in a New Jersey mill. Subsequently several hundred children were put out of work and their families suffered.
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it's 6" long, so I'd say watch movement is out, but it could be part of the movement for a grandfather clock. the lever to the right rides along another gear, blah, blah, bah
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It is a handle for picking up something heavy. The fingerholds are obvious. It fits into a slot in the heavy object and locks it for lifting. I'll bet the heavy object is a block of ice in a mold.
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It's a tool that helps you tie knots, mostly for tying down cargo: you wrap the rope around the protrusions and through the holes, and by turning it, you can create various knots that would otherwise be hard to tension properly (it also allows you to handle cargo safely without having to learn how to make all kinds of tricky knots by hand).
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