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Definition of Tunding
1. tund [v] - See also: tund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunding
Literary usage of Tunding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"From tamp, to fill up a hole in a rock for the purpose of blasting; to plug.
Tum-tum (Anglo-Indian), a dogcart. Tund (schoolboys), tunding at Winchester ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"The boy appealed to the head-master, who told him he must submit to the "tunding."
The number of " cuts " which a prefect may give, is theoretically limited ..."
3. A History of Winchester College by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"The best proof that can be given that tunding has been reduced to the requisite
minimum is, that my own son, who has been in College for three years, ..."
4. A History of Winchester College by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"The best proof that can be given that tunding has been reduced to the requisite
minimum is, that my own son, who has been in College for three years, ..."
5. What I Remember by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1888)
"It was the " prefect of hall " who ordered the infliction of a " public tunding."
The strange phrase, dropped by some unlucky chance into ears to which it ..."
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