Whipping Post

Definition: Whipping Post

1. Post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped.

Synonyms within Context: Whipping Post

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Narrowness Thinness	Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.
Scourge	Pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool, ducking stool; brank; trebuchet, trebuket.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Whipping Post

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Whipping Post (1899)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Whipping Post

Domain	Title
Books	Punishments in the Olden Time: Being an Historical Account of the Ducking Stool, Brank, Pillory, Stocks, Drunkard's Cloak, Whipping Post, Riding the (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Whipping Post

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Delaware pillory and whipping post. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Whipping Post

Modern Translation: Whipping Post

Language		Translations for "whipping post"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		позорен стълб (pillory). (various references)

Pig Latin		ippingwhay ostpay

Turkish		kırbaçlanan kişinin bağlandığı direk. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Whipping Post

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-o-p-p-p-s-t-w"
	-3 letters: whippings.
	-4 letters: hoisting, hoppings, positing, shipping, shopping, sopiting, stopping, swopping, toppings, township, twinship, whipping, whisting, whitings, whopping, wingtips.
	-5 letters: hipping, histing, hoising, hopping, hosting, insight, pipings, pipping, pippins, pishing, pithing, poising, popping, posting, shippon, showing, sipping, sopping, spiting, stoping, stowing, swiping, tipping, topping, topspin, townish, whiting, wingtip, wishing, wisping, wisting, withing, withins.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
whipping post	50
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