verb. (various).—See quots.
1847. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. RANDLE. To punish a schoolboy for an indelicate but harmless offence.
1879. THO. SATCHELL [Notes & Queries, 5th S. xi. 405]. ‘RANDLING.’—From the evidence given in a case before the police magistrate at Birkenhead, it appeared that when any apprentice, at the Britannia Works in that town, remains at work, while the others have decided on taking a holiday, he is punished by a process known as ‘RANDLING.’ He is surrounded by his companions, who seize him by the hair and pull it at intervals until his scruples are overcome.
