rare. [f. SOUSE v.2] The action of beating severely.
c. 1580. Jefferie, Bugbears, II. iv. 6, in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897), 57. With sowcynges with rowsynges with bownsynges with trownsynges.
1788. Hist. of Schoolboy, 46. Talboy declared it his firm intention to have bestowed upon him … an effectual sousing.
