What is "horsewhipped"

Usage examples of "horsewhipped".

They did actually pause for a moment, weapons poised, and Reginald Hector (a more seasoned hand than I at giving orders) bellowed at them from the doorway to fall back before he horsewhipped the lot of them.

Bennett was horsewhipped in the street by that politician, what’s his name?

Last week a male relative of the now former fiancée accosted Jamie in front of the Union Club and horsewhipped him.

Foster argued vehemently that Spencer was getting off much too lightly and deserved to be horsewhipped, at least verbally if not physically!

Any Spanish woman daring to expose her flesh would have been horsewhipped, but mulattas were exempt property, not people.

The failure of my first large criminal scheme, and with it my dream of being a hidalgo who could at least stand in the same room with Eléna without being horsewhipped, had left me pensive.