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floggingflog‧ging /ˈflɒɡɪŋ $ ˈflɑːɡɪŋ/ noun [countable]  - But bring back flogging - abolished as recently as 1861 - they could, and did.
- Man United's owners the Edwards family made his fortune flogging rotten meat to school kitchens.
- Melville was outraged by the floggings administered to the seamen.
- Officials had stressed that the proposed flogging would be to humiliate Mr Brown, not draw blood.
- There'd be a flogging or worse if they took her with stolen clothes.
- Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
- Wearing eight layers of clothing including a duvet, I was almost pleasantly warm flogging up to the bottom of the crag.
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