hookswinging

 [hook-swing-ing]  

hook·swing·ing

   [hook-swing-ing]
noun
a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
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Origin:
1890–95; hook1 + swing1 + -ing1
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