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hookswinging

[hoo k-swing-ing]

noun

a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.

Origin of hookswinging

First recorded in 1890–95; hook¹ + swing¹ + -ing¹

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