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tund, v.|tʌnd|
[ad. L. tund-ĕre to beat.]
1. Winchester School slang. trans. To beat with a stick, esp. an ash rod, by way of punishment. Hence ˈtunded ppl. a., ˈtunding vbl. n.; also ˈtunder, one who ‘tunds’.
1866School Life at Winchester Coll. iii. 38 When I was a big Inferior, I have more than once received..a ‘Tunding’ (thrashing with a stick). 1871Echo 11 Apr. 1 He may be ‘tunded’, in which case he has to stand upon a table, that the præfect may the more conveniently cut into the calves of his legs with an apple twig. 1872Punch 23 Nov. 210/1 ‘Tunding’..is a brutality, in the way of chastisement, inflicted by the big lads on the little ones at Winchester School. 1876Ld. Sherbrooke in Life & Lett. (1893) I. 12 To put a stick into the hand of a boy of sixteen and allow him to use it upon his schoolfellows..is neither fair on the tunder nor the tunded. 1884Times 13 Feb. 11/4 The clamour aroused by the celebrated ‘tunding’ case [at Winchester].
2. gen. To beat, thump (trans. and intr.).
1885Burton Arab. Nts. (1887) III. 44 All the apes were wroth with the plucked ape..and tunded him the more. 1895Brit. Weekly 29 June 131 If he had..but command of the racial tom-tom, it seems to him that he would tund upon it in honour of that great man. 1904Speaker 28 May 206 Louder than the Sea-surge tunds the Harbour-bar. |