1548. Fen Laws, in Thompson, Hist. Boston (1856), 643. No swine were to be put in the fens unrung.
1654. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 191. Swyne that shalbee found unrung.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 530. He let his Hogs go into his Orchard unrung.
1727. E. Laurence, Duty of Steward, 125. Paying Ten shillings for each Hog suffer’d to be unrung or unyoked.
1885. W. Rye, Hist. Norfolk, 114. Men were often prosecuted for … keeping unrung pigs, or savage dogs.
