Definition of skimmington
English to English noun - 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.
source: Webster 1913
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skimmington, swimming costume, singhutÃn, swinestone, sunstone, sanctimony, snakestone, sejunction, sangtaunan, sam houston, scincoidian, sangkatauhan, siamese twin, sangdaan, swansdown, swan's down, sanctum, syncytium, sense datum
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