Meaning of tunding | Babel Free

Definitions

A caning.

British, archaic

Examples

“When all were thus assembled, and before the singers commenced, the culprit who had been sentenced to a tunding stepped out, pulled off his gown, and received from the hands of one deputed by the "prefect of hall," and armed with a tough, pliant ground-ash stick⟳, a severe beating. I never had a tunding; but I have⟳ no doubt⟳ that the punishment was severe, though I never heard of any boy disabled by it from pursuing his usual work⟳ or his usual amusements. It was judiciously ordered by the "prefect of hall" for offences deemed unbecoming the character of a Wykehamist and a gentleman, and only for such.”

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