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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flogging
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
public
▪ The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog, Fimbra, may well fail to materialise.
▪ It's not known when the public flogging will be carried out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be flogging a dead horse
▪ If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
▪ They seem to be flogging a dead horse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flogging

Flog \Flog\ (fl[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged (fl[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flogging (-g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.] To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

Flogging

Flogging \Flog"ging\, a. & n. from Flog, v. t.

Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings.

Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flogging

1793, verbal noun from flog (v.). Earlier in the same sense was floggation (1680s).

Wiktionary
flogging

n. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping. vb. (present participle of flog English)

WordNet
flogging

n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, lashing, flagellation]

flog
  1. v. beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]

  2. beat with a cane [syn: cane, lambaste, lambast]

  3. [also: flogging, flogged]

flogging

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Usage examples of "flogging".

Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.

Malambruno is satisfied in every way, the faces of the duennas are once more smooth and clean, King Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia have been restored to their former state, and as soon as the squirely flogging shall have been completed, the white dove shall be set free of the annoying gerfalcons that persecute it and shall return to the arms of its beloved mate.

I seized him round the waist and carried him round the parlour, running all the time, while he kept on flogging me.

I took the money laughingly, and the colonel then ordered the captain to fetch the offending soldier, and to give him a flogging before me.

And when he went dry, the encouragement he received from his agent, together with gloomy financial prognostications from Plimsoll, made him keep working, flogging out the words, despite his grumpy complaints that nothing flowed naturally and easily, as it had done in the old days.

Horse and man seemed like one, but when Reland had ridden the stallion his commands had usually been accompanied by a heavy-handed sawing on the reins and a pronounced flogging of the heels.

Then gripping the riem I kicked the beast to a canter, Anscombe flogging up the team as we swung down the bank to the edge of the foaming torrent, on the further side of which the Swazis shouted and gesticulated to us to go back.

Cameron decided to enjoy the revelry of a tourney, and so stated that he proposed to give each girl a dozen over the bottom first with the birch, then an equal dozen with the tawse, and that she who least cried out during the flogging would earn the recompense of his embraces.

Miss Birchington mentioned to me only the other evening that you are not overly tidy in keeping your section of your dormitory quarters neat and clean, and she has the authority, as you know, to have you report on a Friday afternoon for a good smacking with the tawse or a flogging with the birch.

It is probably many years since they loved us at all, but since these courts were established and began their dirty work of flogging and dispossessing, the Italians have learned to hate us.

Theft was generally punished with flogging, but in serious cases the thief was forced to run the gauntlet, between two rows of sailors all armed with thin knotted cords.

Fifty marines should certainly be sufficient to main-tain order and discipline amongst the exiles, nor did he doubt that Var would make good his promises of executions and floggings.

Apart from the obvious threat of flogging, the exiles were so wearied by their labors that none had the energy to foment trouble.

They were shocked at the disciplinary floggings and regarded the system of paying soldiers at so much a day, instead of engaging them by promises of glory and plunder, as most base.

One half of it held cells for miscreants and suspicious characters awaiting judgment and floggings.