I. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English hidinge, from hiden to hide + -inge -ing
1. : the act or action of hiding ; especially : a withdrawal from one's usual haunts to evade authority or secure privacy
having got into difficulties with the government for his press reports and cartoons, he went into hiding — Irish Digest
2. : a place or means of concealment
take me to that hiding in the hills — Alfred Tennyson
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: from gerund of hide (V)
: an infliction of physical punishment : beating
a fighter … who had been taking hidings in the gymnasium — Sporting Life
the roof of a van really takes a hiding in all weathers — Keith Winser
especially : whipping
put her over my knee and gave her a hiding — Saul Bellow