What Is It? Game 63

This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange contraption: do you know what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights and fun only! For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 5/23/08 - the answer is:
A barrel maker's hoop lifter, lever hook, or hoop dog, it was used for stretching or levering a hoop over the top of the staves.


No one got it right!

A corpse scatchit. Long ago churchyard graves were not really owned, but rented from the church. If the family stopped attending the church or were short on tithes, the families deceased would be disinterred, usually in a rather casual manner. The threat of this would usually bring the offending members into line. Not to be too graphic, but the bent end of the scatchit would be inserted into the most convienent orifice of the corpse.
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Looks like something you'd kill a seal with. Sure I've seen it in old footage, something like that.

Whatever, it's a nasty looking bit of.. Whatever the hell it is.
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oh maan! This is an Internal Hard Drive remover. See, when the HD gets stuck into the never opened rusted cabinet of our systems, we would need to pull it out with this. Our ancestors have known what the world would be in the next 500 years, so they made this as a precaution. I have written a journal about this too.
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