tongue-boring

Noun

 * 1)  A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.
 * 2) * 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)
 * Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.