verb. (Winchester).—To thrash; TUNDING = a thrashing.
1874. Punch, 19 Dec., 265, ‘Song of the Genial Schoolboy.’
| I like to be TUNDED twice a day, | |
| And swished three times a week. |
1881. PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 43. I never heard of any case in Eton like the ‘TUNDING’ which, some years ago, brought our mother-school into disagreeable notice.
1883. T. A. TROLLOPE, What I Remember, v. It was the ‘prefect of hall’ who ordered the infliction of a ‘public TUNDING.’… Some dozen or so of boys, who had the best capacities for the performance, were appointed by him for the purpose, and the whole assembly stood around the dais, while the hymn ‘Te de profundis’ was sung. When all were thus assembled, and before the singers commenced, the culprit who had been sentenced to a TUNDING stepped out, pulled off his gown, and received from the hands of one deputed by the ‘prefect of hall,’ and armed with a tough, pliant, ground-ash stick, a severe beating.
