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What Is a Curb Plate?
The curb plate holds the tongue down, silencing someone who talks too much. Alex lyon is one of the researchers and s here at the clink prison museumand that fits into the mouth. If a woman had been convicted of what they called scolding, it was the kind of quarrelling and the sewing of bad faith. And this wasit intended to stop the woman from talking, so that she could be led through the street in front of her neighbours.
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