colloq. [f. WHACK v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb WHACK.
1. Beating.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Channings, i. Then take your whacking!
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 Nov., 2/2. There is a sound of the whacking of staves and sticks.
attrib. 1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 19 June, 5/1. We turned away followed by the beaters, one of whom tucked his long whacking-stick ander his chin.
2. Dividing up or sharing.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, II. 154. At last Long J—— and I got to quarrel about the ‘whacking’; there was cheatin’ a-goin’ on.
