"tongue-boring" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "tongue-borings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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      "expansion": "tongue-boring (countable and uncountable, plural tongue-borings)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)",
          "text": "Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue."
      ],
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        [
          "bore",
          "bore"
        ],
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          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongue-boring"
}

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      "tags": [
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)",
          "text": "Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue."
      ],
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        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "bore",
          "bore"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongue-boring"
}