Horsing

Definitions

The military punishment of placing somebody on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged.

Equivalents

Examples

“And though we cannot enumerate the “horsings,” and other little tender attentions that his juvenile indiscretions obtained him, we give⟳ him full credit for having received a modicum of castigation.”

“He grew up mortal fond of trading, and with a mortal hatred to learning; he, however, was flogged through Osterald's abridgement of the New Testament once or twice, and got one or two horsings over a Chapter of Genesis […]”

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