The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whipping \Whip"ping\, a & n. from Whip, v.
Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
WordNet
n. post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped
Wikipedia
"Whipping Post" is a song by The Allman Brothers Band. Written by Gregg Allman, the five-minute studio version first appeared on their 1969 debut album The Allman Brothers Band. But the song's full power only manifested itself in concert, when it was the basis for much longer and more intense performances. On the Allman Brothers' 1971 double live album At Fillmore East, a 22-minute version of the song takes up the entire final side. It was this recording that garnered "Whipping Post" spots on both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list and Rolling Stones list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Usage examples of "whipping post".
But I could not be more a slave than now if I were chained to a whipping post and the lash being laid upon me.
Blown all over the neighborhood like shrapnel, and commingled with the bayoneted corpses of Filipino boys, are huge oil paintings of Christ being scourged, fantastic wooden sculptures of the Romans hammering the spikes through his wrists and ankles, marbles of Mary holding the dead and mangled Christ in her lap, tapestries of the whipping post and the cat o' nine tails in action, blood coursing out of Christ's back through hundreds of parallel gouges.
On his way to school he looked at the stocks and the whipping post, which had a salaried official to attend to the duties connected with it.
By my orders the victim is well stretched out on the ladder, as I generally preferred it to the whipping post, and having armed myself with a very light rod made of fine pieces of whalebone, which would sting awfully without doing serious damage, I went up to the ladder for a commencement, but first made them loosen her a bit, and place a thick sofa bolster under her loins, then fasten her tightly again with her bottom well presented, the drawers pinned back on each side, and her chemise rolled up and secured under her arms.
With two of her children, Mark and Rachel, dead and with the other three absent from Devon--Evelyn down the bay, Sam and Pierre still with the Jesuits at Bohemia--Rosalinds restless energy and her need to give love had to find new channels, and one April day in 1714 as she was leaving the warehouse in Patamoke she was led by accident to that spot across from the courthouse and the slave auction where the whipping post stood close to the stocks.
I knew I shouldn't do this, it was so sadistic, but it was also so damned funny and I just couldn't stop myself, and of course I knew I wasn't going to really do it, and the next time I said, 'Of course I wouldn't, Lisa, do you think I would expect you to work out your fear of roaches in an S&M scenario with me putting a roach down your shirt, the way you made me wear that blindfold at the whipping post in the sports arcade, no Madam!
But Anthea always began by having the heretic's nipple rings removed and using the holes to pin her to the whipping post.
Jamie spent the night in chains, and went to the whipping post first thing in the morning.
If I hit him, I would be lashed to the whipping post, flogged senseless, then sent to die in the mines.
The puppets came and went in front of the little plywood whipping post to which the wooden Jack was strapped.
Zarek stumbled as he was jerked forward and secured to the whipping post in the old Roman courtyard.