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Meaning Of Skimmington
n.
A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington;
that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing
backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of
jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a
henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.