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To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

One who flogs.

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.

To flog with the bamboo.

A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

nsisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each…

To flog with a cowhide.

To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. Sprat. To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]

To whip; to scourge; to flog.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

To flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S.]

A flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby.

To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. [Low]

To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. [Colloq. or Low] Carlyle. Thackeray.

A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]