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Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'),
flogging or
whipping is the act of
beating the
human body with
special implements such as whips, rods, switches...
- the last
state to
sentence someone to
whipping in 1963; however, the
sentence was commuted. The last
whipping in
Delaware was in 1952. In
Portugal today...
- Pistol-
whipping or
buffaloing is the act of
using a
handgun as a
blunt weapon,
wielding it as an
improvised club. Such a
practice dates to the time of...
- The
common whipping is the
simplest type of
whipping knot, a
series of
knots intended to stop a rope from unravelling. As it can slip off the rope easily...
- Foot
whipping, falanga/falaka or
bastinado is a
method of
inflicting pain and
humiliation by
administering a
beating on the
soles of a person's bare feet...
- "
Whipping Tom" was the
nickname given to two ****ual
attackers in
London and the
nearby village of Hackney. Both
would attack women walking alone and beat...
-
whipping knot or
whipping is a
binding of
marline twine or
whipcord around the end of a rope to
prevent its
natural tendency to fray. Some
whippings are...
-
Whipping Girl: A Trans****ual
Woman on ****ism and the
Scapegoating of
Femininity is a 2007 book by the
gender theorist, biologist, and
writer Julia Serano...
- The
Whipping Boy is a
Newbery Medal-winning children's book by Sid Fleischman,
first published in 1986.
Prince Horace, also
known as
Prince Brat, frequently...
- A
whipping boy was a boy
educated alongside a
prince (or boy monarch) in
early modern Europe, who
supposedly received corporal punishment for the prince's...
