Skimmington
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
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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