houghing

One of the monks told me, that it is vaulted below, as they can plainly perceive by the sound of their instruments used in houghing the ground.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Some other defaulters were dealt with before the Mac-Nicolls, a few throughither women and lads from the back-lanes of the burghs, on the old tale, a shoreside man for houghing a quey, and a girl Mac Vicar, who had been for a season on a visit to some Catholic relatives in the

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

In the west, armed bands went about every night houghing the cattle and murdering all who dared to oppose them.

Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

Robert was proved to have boasted of having drawn the first blood of the Maclarens; and the brothers were all accused of having followed this murder by houghing and killing forty head of young cattle belonging to a kinsman of the deceased.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

"Ay! There will be a houghing shortly after dawn!" he muttered.

Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

"Ay! There will be a houghing shortly after dawn!" he muttered.

Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

The old tricks of tolling a Prairie Dog, relaying for Antelope, houghing a

Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Men have no time at the houghing to count his curls aright:

The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

Men have no time at the houghing to count his curls aright.

Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

The Whiteboys would gather in obedience to some secret mandate, march by night in large and ordered companies, some to the land of one offender, others to that of another, and, making the darkness hideous with their white smocks, fall to houghing cattle, destroying fences, and spoiling pastures.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886