To Tune (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

To Tune

To beat: his father tuned him delightfully: perhaps from fetching a tune out of the person beaten, or from a comparison with the disagreeable sounds of instruments when tuning.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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