scalding n.
(US) a beating.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Clockmaker (1843) I 58: He’d a gin him a proper scalding — he’d a taken the bristles off his hide as clean as th skin of a spring shote of a pig killed at Christmas. |
(US) a beating.
| Clockmaker (1843) I 58: He’d a gin him a proper scalding — he’d a taken the bristles off his hide as clean as th skin of a spring shote of a pig killed at Christmas. |