transitive. To beat, strike with a lash, whip, †rod, etc.; to flog, scourge.

To beat, thrash. Also intransitive with into. Also figurative.

absol. To administer a flogging.

intransitive. Chiefly school-boy slang, as to lam (it) into one, to lam out.

transitive and intransitive. To beat, flog, thrash.