The action or an act of hitting or beating a person or thing; beating or flogging, esp. as a punishment. Cf. thrashing, n. 2. Now rare.

The action of cudgelling or beating.

A flogging. Obsolete.

The action of trounce, v.1; a beating, thrashing; also figurative. Also attributive.

A blow; a drubbing.

Originally British regional. A beating administered with a belt or similar implement.

(probably) sweat or moisture produced by a villain who is about to be beaten.

colloquial and regional. Corporal punishment by means of a specified implement, or an implement of a specified material, as †oil of baston, oil of…

colloquial and regional. Corporal punishment by means of a specified implement, or an implement of a specified material, as †oil of baston, oil of…

colloquial and regional. Corporal punishment by means of a specified implement, or an implement of a specified material, as †oil of baston, oil of…

colloquial and regional. Corporal punishment by means of a specified implement, or an implement of a specified material, as †oil of baston, oil of…

colloquial and regional. Corporal punishment by means of a specified implement, or an implement of a specified material, as †oil of baston, oil of…

punningly. (Cf. lam, v., lambskin, n.)

a beating, a thrashing.

a beating, a thrashing; also transferred, figurative, and attributive.

A beating or flogging. Also transferred.

A thrashing, trouncing. Also figurative.

Flogging, a punishment by flogging.

transferred and figurative. (In quot. 1719 apparently = a sound beating; cf. quot. 1627 and cullis, v.).

The action or an act of hitting or beating a person repeatedly and violently, esp. as a punishment using a stick, whip, etc.

Military. In phrases relating to a method of corporal punishment in which a soldier is fastened to a number of halberds placed upright in the…

colloquial. A beating, thrashing. literal and figurative.

A severe reprimand, rebuke, or admonition; (also) a beating or thrashing. Cf. dress, v. 12. Now rare and English regional (northern).

colloquial. A flogging, beating.

English regional (northern). A thrashing; a castigation.

A beating, thrashing; also used by sailors of rough or stormy weather. (colloquial or slang.)

slang. A flogging: see tease, v.1 3 ? Obsolete.

A flogging, thrashing, beating.

The action of whop, v.; a severe beating or flogging; hence, an overwhelming defeat. Also attributive.

Chastisement, corporal punishment. Also figurative and in to get toco for yam.

The action of the verb; the condition of being flaked or flecked; spec. an adventitious appearance of light flecks on animals. Also attributive.

slang. A flogging. ? Obsolete.

The action or an act of lathering; figurative (slang) a beating.

A beating, a thrashing.

slang. A beating, a thrashing. Also figurative: a heavy defeat; a severe punishment. Cf. basting, n.3, nointing, n. 2.

slang. A beating, drubbing, thrashing.

Beating, thrashing.

(a) oil extracted from the nuts of a North American hickory tree and used traditionally by North American Indians as a source of food (now chiefly…

A flogging; esp. so called at Eton. Also attributive.

A severe punishment; a beating.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A beating; a thrashing; rough or violent treatment.

Chiefly British. A specified number of blows administered with a cane or other instrument as punishment. Frequently in six of the best (cf. sixer, n.…

a beating administered with a belt; cf. belting, n. 2b.

A physical beating or assault; a severe defeat, reprimand, or humiliation. Also as a mass noun: the action of physically beating or assaulting…

transferred. An attack in which the victim is trampled upon. More generally, a beating. Cf. stomp, v.2 2c. U.S. colloquial.

A beating, a thrashing. Usually premodified by an intensifying adjective.

A beating; a decisive or humiliating defeat; a severe reprimand. Also (and in earliest use) as a mass noun: the action of inflicting a severe beating…