Cuffing

Definitions

1. The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I was able to remember⟳ that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember⟳ that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.”

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