单词 | to send one to birching lane |
释义 | > as lemmasto send one to Birching (Birchin, Birchen) Lane A whipping with a birch rod, a flogging. †to send one to Birching (Birchin, Birchen) Lane: i.e. for a whipping (with a punning reference to Birchin Lane in London). Nares. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating with stick, rod, or cane bastinado1572 wanding1585 oil of hazel1604 rodding1616 rib-basting1659 birching1838 tunding1866 1838 T. Hood Rise at Father of Angling in Comic Ann. 50 I poked his rods and lines in the fire, and his father gave him a birching. < as lemmas |
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