flagellator

The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

But he told London's Southwark Crown Court that the flagellator was a "sacred implement" called a Zanjeer.

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… irreducible-complexitist ahh, in other words, a flagellator?

Ohio: Fordham Evaluation Authors Weigh In - The Panda's Thumb 2006

… irreducible-complexitist ahh, in other words, a flagellator?

Ohio: Fordham Evaluation Authors Weigh In - The Panda's Thumb 2006

… irreducible-complexitist ahh, in other words, a flagellator?

Ohio: Fordham Evaluation Authors Weigh In - The Panda's Thumb 2006

You married a woman you never should have married in the first place I think you know that, but you were enough of a self-flagellator to stick it out til the bitter end.

"The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me. Ann Althouse 2009

The punishment now began; but whether it was owing to the obstinacy of the culprit or the fear of the flagellator preventing his exertion, Jack endured four or five lashes without wincing, far less crying out.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

At the end of a rather lengthy speech, he repeated his question, and then sat down, taking his place with all that constitutional indignation, which becomes the parliamentary flagellator of the day.

The Prime Minister 1876

"You'll never stow yourself away on board my brig again, will you?" asked our flagellator of each of us alternately, with an alternate lash across our backs to give emphasis to his question, making us jump up from the deck and quiver all over, as we tried in vain to wriggle out of the lashings with which we were tied.

On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874

Some people might be too proud to look forward to the friendship of a flagellator, but in those days we could not pick and choose our chums; Barton might not be clubable, but he might be useful, and the social ladder requires a first step.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862