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- noun An old
English tradition ofploughing teams, who would carry a wooden horse's head on a pole and ask for money from locallandowners .
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Examples
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Old women "go a-gooding" or mumping on St. Thomas's Day, and "hoodening" or horse-head mumming is practised at Walmer, and bull-hoodening prevails at Kingscote, in
Vanishing England 1892
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