One who beats or chastises with (or as with) a whip; a scourger, flogger; spec. an official who inflicts whipping as a legal punishment. Also figur…

A person who wields a whip, switch, or rod; a person who whips or lashes another. Cf. jerk, v.1 1. Obsolete.

One who scourges or flogs; †an official charged with the duty of whipping offenders.

One who beats or whips. Also figurative.

one who firks.

One who wields a whip. one addicted to whipping or flogging, a scourger, lasher (also figurative). ? Obsolete.

A person who wields a whip; a flogger. Obsolete (English regional (northern) in later use).

(a) (chiefly Nautical) a person who is directly subordinate to another; a servant, an underling (frequently depreciative); (b) a person who eats…

One who scourges or flogs. (In quot. 1691 = flagellant, n. 1.)

a man who wields the thong or lash; in 1876, a critic.

one who uses a sjambok.