What is "cuffings"

Usage examples of "cuffings".

And because they had not been through Burl's experiences, they took the cuffings like children.

But I immediately received a hail of cuffings which made me jump straight out of the soaked sheets, and rush in my nightshirt into the corridor, the door of which I found open.

Among them I performed, on the whole, only the most menial of labors, commonly guided in my work only by cuffings and the blows of whips.

In this way she may be able to better read his moods, and desires, and, accordingly, be able the better to serve him, in the process perhaps saving herself a few cuffings and beatings, such as might be garnered by a less alert, more slothful, laxer girl.