"feague : To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled..."

“feague : To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its fundament.
(obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive.
(obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’. […] To mark Koninkrijksdag (Kingdom Day; 15 December), which commemorates the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we are featuring a series of words of Dutch origin.”

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