whipping post

The band manages one encore, “Whipping Post,” but halfway through the number the audience is busily streaming toward the exits.

Although the whipping-post and stocks used to be common things in English towns, we saw them preserved only at Bottisford.

Should the rogue go to the court-house whipping post, or should Hide save the trouble of taking him there?

That man did not lose caste who tied up another woman and had her thrashed until she brought forth at the whipping-post.

While the scenes at the whipping-post on flogging-day are fresh in my mind, I have written down the story of Mary Engle.

A whipping post received many of the slashes, and got gradually worn down.