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cart's-tail
Rarely cart-tail.
The hinder part of a cart, to which offenders were tied to be whipped through the streets. Hence cart's-tailing vbl. n., cart's-tailable a. nonce-wds.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1868/1 They..should be tyed to a Carts tayle, and be whipped three market dayes through the City. 1642in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1721) IV. 559 b, He shall be whipped from thence at a Cart's-Tayl. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Cart, Bawds and other malefactors are whipped at the Cart's tail. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. i. (L.) The rough remedy of the cart-tail.
1808Southey Let. 22 Nov., Your phrase of ‘eking out’ is cart's-tailable without benefit of clergy. Ibid. I am not quite sure which deserves the severest cart's-tailing. |