lamming

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Verb

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lamming

  1. present participle and gerund of lam

Noun

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lamming (plural lammings)

  1. A beating.
    • 1923, J. M. Barrie, Captain Hook at Eton:
      This blood, I am informed, saved him many lammings from the head of the house, who, though Keeper of the Fives, fainted at first sight of it […]
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