cart's-tailn.

Forms: Rarely cart-tail.

The hinder part of a cart, to which offenders were tied to be whipped through the streets.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > back of cart

cart's-tail1563

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1684/2 They..should be tied to a cartes tayle, and be whypped three market daies through the citie.

1642 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1721) I. 559 b He shall be whipped from thence at a Cart's-Tayl.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Cart Bawds and other malefactors are whipped at the Cart's tail.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. i The rough remedy of the cart-tail.

Derivatives

cart's-tailable adj. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1808 R. Southey Let. 22 Nov. Your phrase of ‘eking out’ is cart's-tailable without benefit of clergy.

cart's-tailing n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1808 R. Southey Let. 22 Nov. I am not quite sure which deserves the severest cart's-tailing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	carts-tail
释义	cart's-tailn. Forms: Rarely cart-tail. The hinder part of a cart, to which offenders were tied to be whipped through the streets. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > back of cart cart's-tail1563 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1684/2 They..should be tied to a cartes tayle, and be whypped three market daies through the citie. 1642 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1721) I. 559 b He shall be whipped from thence at a Cart's-Tayl. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Cart Bawds and other malefactors are whipped at the Cart's tail. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. i The rough remedy of the cart-tail. Derivatives cart's-tailable adj. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1808 R. Southey Let. 22 Nov. Your phrase of ‘eking out’ is cart's-tailable without benefit of clergy. cart's-tailing n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1808 R. Southey Let. 22 Nov. I am not quite sure which deserves the severest cart's-tailing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1563
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