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English
Etymology
Latin tundo (“I beat, strike”), + -ing.
Noun
tunding (plural tundings)
- (British, school slang, archaic) A caning.
1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “At Winchester”, in What I Remember , volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son , →OCLC, page 112: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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