cuffing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cuff

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.

   “I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.