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flogger|ˈflɒgə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who flogs.
1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xxi. (1737) 93. 1713 Doctor no Changeling 13 Doctor Busby, the Famous Flogger of Westminster. 1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel II. vi. 145 The common gaol, where a public flogger attends. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 208 note, Dr. Parr was quite as distinguished a flogger as a scholar.
2. slang. A horse- or riding-whip.
1789G. Parker Life's Painter 173 Whip, flogger. 1795Potter Dict. Cant (ed. 2), Flogger, a whip. 18..Sporting Times (Barrère), Compared with the light and elegant floggers of the present day, it is a heavy, common ‘riding companion’.
3. A kind of tool (see quot.).
1884Knight Dict. Mech. IV. 348/2 Flogger, a bung⁓starter. An instrument for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. |