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  Word: Skimmington

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  142472	Skimmington	n.	A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.

  
  

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