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Cat o nine tails
a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back called also the cat It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships...
Flagellate
To whip to scourge to flog...
Flagellation
A beating or flogging a whipping a scourging...
Flog
To beat or strike with a rod or whip to whip to lash to chastise with repeated blows...
Flogger
One who flogs...
Knout
A kind of whip for flogging criminals formerly much used in Russia The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened so that it mangles the flesh...
Larrup
To beat or flog soundly...
Plagose
Fond of flogging as a plagose master...
Cat
Cat. (1) A cat is not the subject of larceny at Common Law: for the punishment for stealing a cat, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 21; for maliciously killing or wounding, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41; and for painful experiment on, see (English) Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 s. 5. See further as to cruelty, ANIMALS.(2) The instrument (cat o' nine tails) with which criminals are flogged in England. [See Whipping.] It consists of nine lashes of whipcord tied on to a wooden handle....
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