linge, lindge, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(lɪndʒ)
Also 9 dial. linch, linse.
[Of obscure origin: the Eng. Dial. Dict. cites (s.v. Linch) from Moisy a mod. Norman lincher to whip.]
trans. To beat, thrash.
| 1600 Holland Livy lvii. Florus' Brev. 1242 Met he with a soldior out of his ranke and file? If he were a Roman, up he went and was well lindged & swaddled with vine⁓wands by the centurion. 1606 ― Sueton. Annot. 27 As if he had beene well lindged with lether thongs. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 319 Linged, lashed, beaten, &c. 1825–80 Jamieson, Linge, Lynge, to flog, beat. 1847 Halliwell, Linse, to beat severely. Devon. 1858 N. & Q. 2nd Ser. VI. 278/2 The..magistrate..exclaimed, ‘Give me a stick, and I'll linge him myself!’ 1868 Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Linch, to flog or thrash, to beat with a whip or flexible cane. |