Whipping
['wɪpɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.
Inputed by Jesse--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whip
(-) a & n. from Whip, v.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Flogging, beating, castigation, thrashing, LICKING.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- Mas'r will find out that I'm one that whipping won't tame. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But, then, that Dodo is a perfect sprite,--no amount of whipping can hurt him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am sadly afraid, my dear lad, that you need whipping. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was an order, written in Marie's delicate Italian hand, to the master of a whipping-establishment to give the bearer fifteen lashes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Still nobody was whipping any one on the Western front. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At a time when the German is still the moral whipping-boy of Europe, it is well to note that the German record is in this respect the best of all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I don't see, said Miss Ophelia to St. Clare, how I'm going to manage that child, without whipping her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The yelling and shouting, and whipping and galloping, of all parties interested, made it an exhilarating, exciting, and particularly boisterous race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You see, Miss Feely, said Rosa, I don't mind the whipping so much, if Miss Marie or you was to do it; but, to be sent to a _man! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The threat that terrifies more than whipping or torture of any kind is the threat of being sent down river. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But this good prince was so gracious as to forgive the poor page his whipping, upon promise that he would do so no more, without special orders. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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