1566 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries 12th Ser. VII. 142/1 P^d for whyppynge of a man xii^d.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 533 Vse euery man after his deserts, Then who should scape whipping.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 301 I am not bound..to teare my flesh by inhumane whippings, and flagellations.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xvi. 110 To such a lad a frown may be a whipping.

1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) ix. 86 Whipping breaks the Spirits of Lads well born.

1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 18 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1958 Pray let my godson never know what a blow or a whipping is, unless for those things for which, were he a man, he would deserve them.

1835 F. A. Chardon Jrnl. 10 July (1932) 37 Went to the Medicine dance last—Came back late and got a whipping from my Wife for my bad behaviour.

1866 Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly III. vii. 171 She put him across her knee, pulled off an old slipper she was wearing, and gave him a sound whipping with its fat sole.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. iv. 58 If a letter had been withheld by her father, it was a part of her whipping.

1916 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 623 The savage whippings of criminals.

1948 A. Lomax in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 481/1 Give him a whuppin'.

1974 W. Garner Big enough Wreath vii. 94 You swore there never was a whupping could make you holler.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 119^v It must be sene to, that they [sc. horses drawing together] be euen matched, least the stronger spoyle the weaker, while he dreadeth the rating, and whipping.

a1628 F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady iv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 281 Our flesh being like a Toppe which only goes vpright with whipping.

1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 150 The plants..will..become liable to lash each other's tops, with every blast of wind. This evil is called whipping of tops.

1917 ‘J. Oxenham’ Loosing Lion's Whelps 21 Faces..bleached and sodden with the whipping of the wind.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. iv. 64 The whipping of creams, the stiffening of jellies, [etc.].

1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 156 The blood contains a certain amount of fibrin,..which on whipping is separated in..stringy masses.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 205 There is no better sport then whipping for Bleaks in a boat in a Summers evening. View more context for this quotation

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 60 To initiate a young angler..by his whipping for them in a hot summer's evening.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. v. 114 What state is the river in?.. Will it do for whipping?

1834 in Dk. Buckingham Crts. Will. IV. & Vict. (1861) II. 115 I rather think the Government, as they knew they would be weak, considered it..best..to take no pains in whipping.

1880 G. O. Trevelyan Early Hist. C. J. Fox v. 196 It was an allusion which Burke made in the course of the evening to the industry of the Treasury officials that first rendered the term ‘whipping in’ classical.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 6/2 The Government is entitled to whatever credit is due to a good piece of whipping.

1901 R. S. W. Bell Tales of Greyhouse 48 Wardour, a trifle weary of the arduous task of whipping-in, had forged ahead.

1903 Times 30 Mar. 7/6 Extra zeal..in the whipping-in of audiences.

1952 C. Day Lewis Grand Manner 12 This whipping-up of words into a frenzy.

1955 Times 18 July 4/7 He had emphasized that the ‘whipping up’ of public opinion against South Africa..would..estrange the great majority of South Africans.

1959 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 6 This prospect suggests a possible explanation for his deliberate whipping-up of patriotic frenzy.

1540 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 4 Payd for whyppynge of roopes..viij d.

a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 38 Baculi caulis, the shaft of the club. Baculi manubrium, the handle where the wippen is. Baculi filum, the wippen.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 230 [He] whips the Cord again about the Page.., taking care that the several whippings lye parallel.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvii. 117/1 The whipping of the string, is that part where the arrow is set on.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 330 The lashings..will yield no longer to his whipping and pulling.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 28 For splicing an eye put on a good whipping.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 112 To whip the end of a rope..The turns of the whipping are always passed up towards the end of the rope.

1887 J. H. Keene Fishing Tackle 90 The whipping of hooks on gimp.

1814 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 274 Tell Mrs. Haw..to prepare for plenty of hemming and whipping.

1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life ix. 151 All kinds of stitches,—embroidery, and plain over-and-over, and whippings, and darns.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 519 Whipping, a term..denoting a method of drawing up a piece of frilling..into gathers, by..sewing loosely over a delicately rolled edge of the same.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. vi. 547 For whipping, the time is somewhat later then grafting in the stocke.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 87/1 There is no occasion in this case, in unloading a vessel of coals, to be confined to..what is called whipping.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 95/2 He had met with an accident..which prevented him from following coal-whipping any longer.

1887 R. Newman in Charity Organisation Rev. July 275 Coal-whipping..has now all but ceased.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 160 Her husband had still the marks of a whipping-bout.

1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 9 Jan. (1948) II. 599 To morrow..is his [sc. the Lord Treasurer's] day when all the Ministers dine with him. He calls it whipping day..we do indeed usually railly him about his Faults on that day.

1703 D. Defoe Hymn to Pillory 15 In vain he struggl'd, he harangu'd in vain, To bring in Whipping Sentences again.

a1658 J. Cleveland Char. Country-comm.-man in Wks. (1687) 77 His Fate..is..a whipping Audit, when he is wrung in the Withers by a Committee of Examinations.

1922 Daily Mail 29 Nov. 9 Members of this secret organization..in the last 18 months in Texas alone have conducted no fewer than 500 tar and feather parties and whipping-bees.

1906 S. R. Crockett White Plumes xiv The whipping-bench and a good dozen spare rods are what they want.

a1877 A. C. Swinburne Lesbia Brandon (1952) 504 He..begged..that he might not be hoist across the whipping-block by a servant.

1953 R. Graves Poems 26 And taught St. Dominic's to baulk At gown and hood and whipping-block.

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 23/2 On the way we ran into a crowd following a whipping-cart.

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. iv. i. sig. Ej^v She fearde of late, of whipping cheere to smell.

1647 R. Herrick Hell in Noble Numbers 41 Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds.

1684 J. Thaddells Thamasis's Advice to Painter 2 For his Cheat, the Man will pay full dear, Condemned by my Lord to Whipping Chear.

1924 Techn. Bull. N.Y. State Agric. Exper. Station No. 113. 3 Good whipping cream gave a reduced volume of whipped cream when compared to poor whipping cream.

1978 Chicago June 248/2 Pure whipping cream for coffee and batters.

1896 Daily News 30 Dec. 5/1 There will always be a devotee ready to stand as whipping-girl between him and the strokes of fate.

1906 B. M. Croker Youngest Miss Mowbray viii Ella did not speak; she did not even cry out, while she acted as the whipping-girl of her enemy.

1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Postscr. sig. Y You have got the whipping hand of him.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxix. 147 It was the universal custom to send women and young girls to whipping-houses.

1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 510 Without thought of nine o'clock, pass patrol, or whipping-house.

1631 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries (1921) 12th Ser. VIII. 427/2 The whippinge place in the Markett.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 52 Often have we strayed here in sessions time, just to catch a glimpse of the whipping-place.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. 360 (note) In after times the Kaken or whipping-pole, stood on the Stortorg.

1600 Newe Metamorphosis Be brought to th' whipping post..And as a rogue stande ready to be whipt.

1741 P. Tailfer et al. Narr. Georgia 37 Irons, Whipping-Posts, Gibbets, &c. were provided.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ii. 15 He never was flogged, but it was a wonder how he escaped the whipping-post.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 20 No whipping-post..could have been leaner than Mrs. Newcome.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 174 Send them to th' whipping-stocke.

1678 Penn Life in Wks. (1782) I. p. lxii We have been as the wool-sacks, and common whipping-stock of the kingdom.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. i. 20 I am born to be the mere whipping-top of fortune.

1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) II. 249 A boy's whipping-top.

a1704 T. Brown's Wks. (1711) IV. 185 By Nature meant, by Want a Pedant made, Bl——re at first profess'd the Whipping-trade.

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria Speakers, in Terence in Eng. 1 Dromo..The master of the rogues, a whipping bedle.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxvi. sig. N2^v The whipping Satyrist.

1904 R. Cullum Hound from North ii The whipping snow lashed their faces.

1919 19th Cent. Nov. 968 To become the drilling and whipping masters of the despised soldiery.

1681 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Naked Truth 2 A furious chastizing Pædagogue, another Whipping-Tom, that took pleasure to lash and slash.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 21 A Detachment of the same Croisade, or Holy War, call'd Flagellantes or Whipping-Toms.

a1728 W. Kennett in Aubrey's Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 59 A whipping Tom in Kent who disciplined the wandring Maids and Women till they were afraid to walk abroad.

1791 Throsby Leicester 356 These whip-men, called Whipping-Toms, are preceded by a bell-man [etc.].

1846 Local Act (Leicester) 9 Vict. c. 29 §41.

1923 S. H. Skillington Let. to Editor Early on Shrove Tuesday a crowd assembled in the Newarke, Leicester. At the sound of the ‘Pancake Bell’ a number of men and youths began a game of hockey or shinney. About 1 o'clock the ‘Whipping Toms’, three men in blue smocks with very long wagon whips, began to try to drive the shinney players out with their whips. The game was suppressed by Parliament in 1846.