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WHIPPING POST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("whipping post" is a kind of...):
post (an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position)
