Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to thrash, to give a beating; note extrapolation in cit. 1714.

1767		J. Lacey Sauny the Scot I i: And you there, Goodman Turnip-eater, with your Neats-Leather Phisonomy, I’ll send your Kitchen-wench to Liquor it this Wet-weather.
c.1672		‘The West-Country Dialogue’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 260: You look’d like a Lover that wanted a bride; / For some such like reason she liquor’d your hide.
a.1689		‘Robin Hood & Little John’ Child Ballads III 134/2: I’ll liquor thy hide, If thou offerst to touch the string.
1702		‘Princely Diversion’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 91: And if he does offer to tire, I’ll certainly liquor your hide.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 101: I’ll liquor your Hide.