After Jonah moved from North Carolina to Grand Forks, North Dakota, his wife insisted the word he used wasn’t real when he described a plunger-style washing machine as souging clothes up and down. The verb souge, more commonly souse, is heard...
soaking n.— «While only the historical clubs will play baseball, they will invite children to take part in rounders. “You could throw the ball at people to get them out,” Mr. Fesolowich said, a practice called soaking.» —“Spare...
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...