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(historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue..
Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.
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Tongue-boring means (historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue..
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Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.
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