transitive. To scourge, whip, flog, beat (a person); also, to strike with a weapon or the hand.

figurative. To beat, scourge. Hence, to punish, treat severely.

transitive. To strike or beat with or as with a whip. To punish or chastise with a whip or rod; to scourge, flog. Also loosely, to beat (esp. a…

transitive. To beat, strike with a lash, whip, †rod, etc.; to flog, scourge.

(transitive) to scourge.

transitive. To scourge, whip; to beat or thrash. Also to flail along, to drive by beating.

transitive. To beat, whip. Obsolete.

†To beat or lash with a leash (obsolete); to whip (dialect).

transitive. To scourge.

transitive. To beat, flog, whip, thrash. †Also with off. archaic or dialect.

To whip on the buttocks; to flog. Obsolete.

transitive. To lash (a person) with or as though with a whip or cord; to beat, thrash.

transitive. To scourge, whip.

To cut with a scourge or whip; to lash, whip, thrash severely.

transitive. To flog with a chawbuck; to whip.

transitive. ‘To breech, whip, lash (on Childermas or Innocents' day), to jerke all such as they can find in bed’ (Cotgrave: mentioned as a ‘merrie…

transitive. To scourge.

To beat with stripes. Obsolete.

transitive. To flog, scourge, or beat. Now rare.

(see quots.).

a whip for driving cattle; also as v. transitive, to beat with a stock-whip.

U.S. regional (western). transitive. U.S. To strike or drive with or as with a rawhide whip. Cf. cowhide, v.