lumps
noun B2- A beating or verbal abuse. · He's taken his lumps over the years.
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He saw the husbandman’s wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps.
And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.
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