siserary, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

siserary n.

also siserara

[popular corruption of a writ of certiorari: ‘A writ, issuing from a superior court, upon the complaint of a party that he has not received justice in an inferior court, or cannot have an impartial trial, by which the records of the cause are called up for trial in the superior court’ (OED)]

1. a severe reprimand.

1771		Smollett Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 91: I have gi’en the dirty slut a siserary.
1826		Sir W. Scott Woodstock x n.p.: Master Holdenough... attacked it with such a siserary of Latin as might have scared the devil himself [F&H].

2. a hard blow.

1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 215: SISERARA, a hard blow. — Suffolk.
1873		Sl. Dict.