v. [ad. L. tund-ĕre to beat.]
1. Winchester School slang. trans. To beat with a stick, esp. an ash rod, by way of punishment. Hence Tunded ppl. a., Tunding vbl. sb.; also Tunder, one who ‘tunds.’
1871. Echo, 11 April, 1. He may be ‘tunded,’ in which case he has to stand upon a table, that the præfect may the more conveniently cut into the calves of his legs with an apple twig.
1872. Punch, 23 Nov., 210/1. ‘Tunding’ … is a brutality, in the way of chastisement, inflicted by the big lads on the little ones at Winchester School.
1876. Ld. Sherbrooke, in Life & Lett. (1893), I. 12. To put a stick into the hand of a boy of sixteen and allow him to use it upon his schoolfellows … is neither fair on the tunder nor the tunded.
1884. Times, 13 Feb., 11/4. The clamour aroused by the celebrated ‘tunding’ case [at Winchester].
2. gen. To beat, thump (trans. and intr.).
1885. Burton, Arab. Nts. (1887), III. 44. All the apes were wroth with the plucked ape … and tunded him the more.
1895. Brit. Weekly, 29 June, 131. If he had … but command of the racial tom-tom, it seems to him that he would tund upon it in honour of that great man.
1904. Speaker, 28 May, 206. Louder than the Sea-surge tunds the Harbour-bar.
