单词 | flogging-block |
释义 | > as lemmasflogging-block flogging-block n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who is beaten beating-stock1552 flogging-block1827 floggee1836 beatee1860 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod pillara1475 rogue stob1550 post1555 whipping-post1600 whipping-stock1615 fork1619 whipstock1619 flogging-stake1785 flogging-block1827 triangle1847 whipping-pole1862 1827 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 16 1126 Some of the men were brought out so frequently to be flogged, that they were known by the name of the flogging-blocks. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 119 By good fortune [to] escape the flogging block. < as lemmas |
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