floggingn.
/ˈflɒɡɪŋ/ The action of flog v.
1. The practice or system of punishment by blows; an instance of it; a chastisement.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating
swingingc1200
beating?c1225
chastising1303
correctionc1386
lashingc1400
scouring1426
Moses' law1482
jerking1552
whipping1566
yarking1573
feaking1600
correct1606
tawing1620
lacing1622
castigation1640
basking1642
verberation1661
strappado1668
the lash1694
flogging1758
whopping1812
quilting1822
blistering1842
whaling1852
nailing1895
1758 W. Shenstone Let. to Graves 22 July I have not only escaped a flogging [in the Monthly Review] but am treated with great civility.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlvii. 206 There's nothing like flogging to cure that disorder.
1851 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. iv. xi. 92 The question of military flogging was brought forward year by year.
2. In various uses.
a. The action of forcing up (a rent).
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b. The flapping (of a sail).
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c. Fishing. (See flog v. 3).
d. Selling or offering for sale (see flog v. 2c).
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun]
salec1050
sellinga1325
merchandisinga1425
utterance1436
venting1532
vendition1542
vent1548
assale1566
ventage1577
vent1583
vending1666
distribution1793
flogging1919
turnaround1936
1835 F. Marryat Pirate iii Keep the sheet fast..or the flogging will frighten the lady.
1881 Daily News 9 Sept. 2/1 The tenants were really unable to stand any longer the flogging of rents which they had managed to pay for so many years.
1886 Q. Rev. 163 350 When a long day's flogging has been at last followed by a solitary rise.
1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘Flogging’, the illegal disposal of Army goods.
1935 ‘D. Hume’ Gaol Gates are Open 10 If a crook disposes of stolen property through a fence he is ‘fencing’, but if it is sold through any other channel it is ‘flogging’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
flogging-block n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who is beaten
beating-stock1552
flogging-block1827
floggee1836
beatee1860
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
1827 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 16 1126 Some of the men were brought out so frequently to be flogged, that they were known by the name of the flogging-blocks.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 119 By good fortune [to] escape the flogging block.
flogging-cove n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > official who administers
scourger1580
flesh-dresser1620
drubman1629
flogging-cove1699
flog-mastera1704
flagellant1876
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Flogging-cove, the Beadle, or Whipper in Bridewell.
flogging-stake n.
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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
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Flogging stake, the whipping post.
C2.
flogging-chisel n. a large cold chisel used in chipping castings.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 886/2 Flogging-chisel.
flogging-hammer n. a small sledgehammer used for striking a flogging-chisel.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 886/2 Flogging-hammer.
Derivatives
ˈfloggingly adv.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adverb]
throlyc1390
threatfully1565
menacingly1591
threateninglya1616
minaciously1660
minatorilya1670
louringly1836
floggingly1840
minatorially1847
sinisterly1847
1840 New Monthly Mag. 58 527 A frown from Mr. Innovate, floggingly put on, hastened his preparations.
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ˈflogging adj.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that beats
swingeinga1614
flauging1682
flogging1682
1682 T. D'Urfey Injured Princess i. i. 6 Ask him if he knows where we may find a sound Wench: he's a flauging old Whipster, I warrant him.
1884 Athenæum 19 July 75/3 He undergoes brutal treatment from a flogging master.
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