To beat.--Carr's Craven Dialect.
When I was a little boy--they coaxed me to take all the jawings, and all the hidings and to go first into all sorts of scrapes.--J. C. Neal, Sketches.
·noun An abode or dwelling. II. Hide ·noun The human skin; — so called in contempt. III. Hide ·vt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To beat; to rope's-end or drub. Also, to secrete. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See Leadenhall Market. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose