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Of a blow, stroke, etc.: sufficiently hard or severe to cause pain; sharp, stinging; (in later use sometimes without implication of pain being…
Causing or involving bodily pain; painful, grievous; distressing or severe in this respect. Of a blow, bite, weapon, etc.
Scottish dialect and slang (chiefly School slang). Of a blow: painful; (also) of a wound: sore. Now Obsolete or rare.