Tongue-boring
noun
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Noun
- 1 A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue. countable, historical, uncountable
"Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders."
Example
More examples"Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders."
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