Honestly, I thought it might've been a bike pump. (Which doesn't mean it couldn't also be a cosh!)
It looked sort of like industrial nunchaku to me: the metal bars were solid except where pierced and the string part was wire rope. I suspect it used to be part of some larger machine, because it didn't look like any tool I recognized, but I'd still like to know.
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It looked sort of like industrial nunchaku to me: the metal bars were solid except where pierced and the string part was wire rope. I suspect it used to be part of some larger machine, because it didn't look like any tool I recognized, but I'd still like to know.