tongue-boring

English

Noun

tongue-boring (countable and uncountable, plural tongue-borings)

  1. (historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.
    • 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)
      Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.
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