▪ I. lounder, n. Sc.
(ˈlundər)
[? Onomatopœic.]
A heavy, swingeing blow.
| 1723 Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 263 Wha lent him on the neck a lounder That gart him o'er the threshold founder. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxi, I wad likeit weel just to hae..gien him a lounder wi' my pike-staff. 1862 W. Hunter Biggar & Ho. of Fleming xix. 231 [The] unwary cur..received such a lounder as sent him howling to his den. |
▪ II. lounder, v. Sc.
(ˈlundər)
[f. lounder n.]
trans. To beat, cudgel, thrash. Also, to hurl with violence on (something), in quot. fig.
| 1806 in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Ballads (1875) 284/1 His back they loundert, mell for mell. 1816 Scott Old Mort. iv, If they come to lounder ilk ither, as they did last time, suldna I cry on you. 1893 Stevenson Catriona 330 Why is all this shame loundered on my head? |
Hence, ˈloundering vbl. n. ˈloundering ppl. a., (of a blow) swingeing, severe.
| 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, To lend his loving wife a loundering lick. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, Her daughter had never seen Jock Porteous..since he had gien her a loundering wi' his cane. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley xxx. 437, I should rather relish a loundering whack. |