To hack.

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1806.  Here he [the cat] was immediately subjected to the modus operandi of a sailor, who Jacknifed (as he termed it) the poor creature in several places about the head, and then placing the worm upon the wounds by means of a stick, “punched” him until he ejected a quantity of green matter into each.—The Balance, July 22, p. 228/2.

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