Definition of "houghing" [houghing]

• Present participle of hough. (verb)

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• "One of the monks told me, that it is vaulted below, as they can plainly perceive by the sound of their instruments used in houghing the ground."
• "In the west, armed bands went about every night houghing the cattle and murdering all who dared to oppose them."
• "Robert was proved to have boasted of having drawn the first blood of the Maclarens; and the brothers were all accused of having followed this murder by houghing and killing forty head of young cattle belonging to a kinsman of the deceased."