عربي إلى أنجليزي الفن/الأدب الشعر والأدب

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Sudanese text. Here the context is a husband has been beating his wife.
I don't fully understand what's happening here. He's sizing her up, and she is sending him a thousand messages by gripping the stick he
used to beat her with? Is that it?

كان يقيس حجمها في سرّه بينما كانت ترسل له ألف رسالة بحشرها عصاته الذي كان يضربها به في النار التي ...

Thank you!