vbl. sb. [f. TAME v.1 + -ING1.] The action of TAME v.1 Also attrib. Taming-stick, a kind of yoke for newly captured slaves.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 486/2. Tamynge fro wyyldenesse, domesticacio.

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a. 1533.  Frith, Disput. Purgat. (1829), 137. What thou shalt do to the profit of thy neighbour, and taming of thy flesh.

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. ii. 54. Faith he is gone vnto the taming schoole … and Petruchio is the master.

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1866.  Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. iv. 107. Nearly all were in the taming-stick.

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