verb. (pugilistic).—1. To fight; to box: the idea is that of mauling: see BRUISER.
TO BRUISE ALONG, verb. phr. (hunting).—To pound along.
1865. Dublin University Magazine, II., 19. A majority of those who follow them have … no notion of hunting, but go BRUISING ALONG.
1872. G. A. LAWRENCE, Anteros, xii., 110. The baron hunted his five days … BRUISING ALONG determinedly.
1872. G. A. LAWRENCE, Anteros, I., 207. He was a good second-rate shot, and a fair, though by no means BRUISING rider to hounds. Ibid., 234. There were not a few admirers of his BRUISING style, etc.
