vbl. sb. [f. LYNCH v. + -ING1.] The action of LYNCH v.; an instance of this.
1839. Niles’ Reg., 14 Dec., 256/1. Horrible lynching.
1901. N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 281. Lynchings in the South are mainly caused by the peculiar nature of the crimes for which lynching is a penalty.
attrib. 1879. Sir G. Campbell, White & Black, 171. Several lynching cases of atrocity occurred before I had been many weeks in the States.
1884. Sir L. H. Griffin, Gt. Repub., 148. He was taken to the scene of the crime by a lynching party.
