Verb (common).—To flog. For synonyms, see Tan.
1868. Cassell’s Mag., May, p. 80. This was carried across the yard to Jacky as a regular challenge, and some said that Kavanagh and his friends were coming over to hide Jacky after dinner.
1885. Punch, 29 Aug. p. 98. And the silver-topped rattan with which the boys I used to hide.
Hidebound, adj. (old: now recognised).—Barren; intractable; niggardly; pedantic; utterly immovable.
1606. Return from Parnassus, ii., 4 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ix., 125). Any of the hidebound brethren of Oxford or Cambridge.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i., 2. I am as barren and hidebound as one of your scribbling poets, who are sots in company for all their wit.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hidebound Horse, whose Skin sticks very close, and tite like a Pudding Bag, usually when very Fat. Ibid. Hidebound Muse, Stiff, hard of Delivery, Sir J. Suckling call’d Ben Johnson’s so.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1893. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Feb. ‘High Time to Get Up.’ The most dragging inertness and the most hide-bound celerity.