Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Melting
subs. (pugilistic).—See quot.
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1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. MELTING—a sound drubbing, all one way. A melter is he who punisheth, and the thing administered is a MELTING—a corruption of malletting.
