单词 | whipping-stock |
释义 | > as lemmaswhipping-stock whipping-stock n. (a) = whippincrust n.; (b) a person who is frequently whipped (cf. laughing stock n.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who is whipped whipping-stock1615 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 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. < as lemmas |
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