Chiefly Scottish. A whipping post; a raised structure (a platform, pedestal, etc.) on which a person undergoes public punishment or penance. Also…
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释义 | society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod (11) pillara1475 Chiefly Scottish. A whipping post; a raised structure (a platform, pedestal, etc.) on which a person undergoes public punishment or penance. Also… rogue stob1550 A stake; a post; also a gibbet. †rogue stob, a whipping-post. post1555 A whipping post. Obsolete. whipping-post1600 a post set up, usually in a public place, to which offenders are or were tied to be whipped. whipping-stock1615 (a) = whippincrust, n.; (b) a person who is frequently whipped (cf. laughing stock, n.). fork1619 Roman History. Used to render Latin furca, (a) the ‘yoke’ under which defeated enemies were made to pass as a token of their submission; (b) the… whipstock1619 A whipping-post (= whipping-post n. at whipping, n. compounds 1b (a). Obsolete. flogging-stake1785 flogging-block1827 triangle1847 Military. (Usually plural) A tripod, originally formed of three halberds stuck in the ground and joined at the top, to which soldiers were… whipping-pole1862 = whipping-post n. |
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