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Definition of Houghing
1. hough [v] - See also: hough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houghing
Literary usage of Houghing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1904)
"They took their name from their practice of houghing the cattle of obnoxious
persons. The society was suppressed in 1713. House-carls. ..."
2. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1806)
"He quoted the statute of the 5th of Edward VI. whereby persons, who were only
suspected of being guilty of offences less horrid than the act of houghing, ..."
3. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1806)
"This exasperated the populace, and in vindictive retaliation, they had recourse
to the barbarous practice of houghing the soldiers, whenever they found them ..."
4. A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1890)
"Hordes of armed ruffians, in number forty to fifty in a gang, traversed the
country every night, over a tract of sixty miles, houghing the cattle of ..."
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