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- noun In the past, a
punishment whereby a hole orbore was made onto someone'stongue .
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Examples
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He was pale when he came out of the pillory, but highcoloured after tongue-boring.
Whitehead's Sandbur Michael Caddell 2006
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He was pale when he came out of the pillory, but highcoloured after tongue-boring.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Caddell 2006
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Williams was excused and partially justified; while the whipping, ear - cropping, tongue-boring, and hanging of the Quakers was defended, as the only effectual method of dealing with such devil-driven heretics, as
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Williams was excused and partially justified; while the whipping, ear - cropping, tongue-boring, and hanging of the Quakers was defended, as the only effectual method of dealing with such devil-driven heretics, as
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Williams was excused and partially justified; while the whipping, ear - cropping, tongue-boring, and hanging of the Quakers was defended, as the only effectual method of dealing with such devil-driven heretics, as
Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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