noun

• One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
• (archaic) A person delegated to torture prisoners.
• (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
• (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
• An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
• (obsolete, nautical) A long meat-fork.