leathering

"This man tells me that you gave him a leathering," he replied.

But for the breathing of the new mother, and the soft leathering of snow at the window, there was no sound.

Not only on her face but all over her body, Pat had given her a humdinger of a leathering.

The term leathering is sometimes used in the sense of a physical punishment (such as a severe spanking) applied with a leather whip, martinet, etc.

At one show Kaye replaced 12 strings during one half-hour set and in some songs up to three strings would succumb to the leathering.

It never lasts and it always represents a short-term leathering, but Margaret Curran must be nervous that the electorate will administer a similar punishment.

'He understands the importance of time and the thorough leathering of a jibboom hole, and I have little doubt we shall be at sea by Sunday.'

The Catalonians don't remember it as a riot, they remember it as the night Franco's polis got a right good leathering.'

He spotted me behind the wheel and told my father and I got a leathering, but in general I got away with my nocturnal forays, as I wasn't bringing trouble to the door.

I learned that most people apply sunscreen incorrectly anyway, that the leathering and spots that the sun causes are called photo-aging and that dermatologists call a freckle a lentigo, which is a telltale sign that you've had sun damage.