soaking
n.— «A painful out: In base ball’s earliest years, a player could throw a runner out by hitting him with the ball in a practice called soaking. Soaking was outlawed by 1867.» —“A lesson in baseball’s beginnings” by Matt Wastradowski The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) May 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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