horsing
/hˈɔɹsɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The military punishment of placing somebody on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged.
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"