uitschudden

Updated: May 28, 2025

At a later period the English had a trick of taking the hides out of the tanning tubs and cutting them to pieces, in the hope, I suppose, that we should then be compelled to go barefoot and unclothed. It was to obviate such a catastrophe as this that the custom of Uitschudden now came into force. The burghers, although against orders, stripped every prisoner.

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet - Three Years' War