Sc. [f. LOUNDER sb.] trans. To beat, cudgel, thrash. Also, to hurl with violence on (something), in quot. fig.
1806. in Whitelaw, Bk. Sc. Ballads (1875), 284/1. His back they loundert, mell for mell.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., iv. If they come to lounder ilk ither, as they did last time, suldna I cry on you.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, 330. Why is all this shame loundered on my head?
Hence Loundering vbl. sb. Loundering ppl. a. (of a blow) swingeing, severe.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. ii. To lend his loving wife a loundering lick.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xviii. Her daughter had never seen Jock Porteous … since he had gien her a loundering wi’ his cane.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xxx. 437. I should rather relish a loundering whack.
