hookswinging
[ hook-swing-ing ]
/ ˈhʊkˌswɪŋ ɪŋ /
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.
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