| 单词 | whipping-block |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhipping-block whipping-block n. a block on which offenders are laid to be whipped. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-block bobbing-block1526 whipping-blocka1877 whipping-bench1906 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. < as lemmas |
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