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(noun) - (1) The comparative situation of a poor fellow whose wife - not satisfied with the mere henpecking of her helpmate - takes care that all the world shall witness the indignities she puts upon him. The expression is also applied to any other similar, if such there be, state of misery.
--John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825
(2) Harrow, a heavy frame of timber or iron set with iron teeth or tines, which is dragged over ploughed land to break clods.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
January 16, 2018