Licking

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A lapping with the tongue.

II. Licking ·noun A flogging or castigation.

III. Licking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Lick.

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licking
A flogging; a beating. Come over here, you rascal, swim over the mill dam, and if I don't give you ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.