† fouetn.
Obsolete.
A whip.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge
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a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxxxvi/2 Thenne he delyuered to hym a fouet & his hogges to kepe.
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