Sweating
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The questioning of a percerning his connection with crime or knowledge thereof, after he has been arrested and in custody, by plying him with questions or by threats or other wrongful means, extorting from him information to be used against him as testimony upon his trial for such alleged crime. 153 Ky. 412, 155 S. W. 1131, Ann. Cas. 1915C 134.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The practice of abusing prisoners to force them to confess or divulge information.