whipstressn.
/ˈhwɪpstrɪs/ rare.
A female flogger.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who beats > female
whipstress1707
1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. (1715) 366 The Whipstresses [Fr. fouetteuses]..had so tir'd themselves, that they could no longer stir their Arms.
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n.1707- to hold, keep dern
- to hold, keep in suspense
- to hold, keep tack
- to hold, keep tryst
- to hold, keep war or wars
- to hold, keep ward
- to hold, keep wedlock
- to hold, keep, break covenant
- to hold, keep, owe, swear fay
- to hold, keep, owe, swear one's fay
- to hold, lay in wage
- to hold, pull, shake, take, etc, by the sleeve
- to hold, rarely have, tack with
- to hold, rarely have, tack with to
- to hole below the waterline
- to hole beneath the waterline
- to hole in one
- to hole out
- to hole out in one
- to hole to a house of water
- to hole to the house of water
- to hole up
- to holler uncle
- to home
- to hone in