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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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