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tongue-borings

tongue-borings is the plural of tongue-boring.

Meaning of tongue-boring

Noun

tongue-boring (countable and uncountable, plural tongue-borings)

  1. (historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.
    • 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.1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)

Questions about tongue-borings

What is tongue-borings the plural of?
Tongue-borings is the plural of tongue-boring.

Words near tongue-borings in the dictionary

  1. tongue-and-groove
  2. tongue-and-groove pliers
  3. tongue-bath
  4. tongue-baths
  5. tongue-boring
  6. tongue-borings
  7. tongue-clacker
  8. tongue-clackers
  9. tongue-fence
  10. tongue-fencer
  11. tongue-fencing

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