Cat-o'-nine-tails

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cat-o'-nine-tails A whip, first with three, then with six, and lastly with nine lashes, used for punishing offenders, and briefly called a cat. Lilburn was scourged, in 1637, with a whip having only three lashes, but there were twenty knots in each tail, and, as he received a lash every three paces between the Fleet and Old Palace Yard, Cook says that 60,000 stripes were inflicted. Titus Oates was scourged, in the reign of James II., with a cat having six lashes, and, between Newgate and Tyburn, received as many as 17,000 lashes. The cat-o'-nine-tails once used in the British army and navy is no longer employed there, but garotters and some other offenders are still scourged. Probably the punishment was first used on board ship, where ropes would be handy, and several ropes are called cats, as "cat-harpings," for bracing the shrouds, "cat-falls," which pass over the cat-head and communicate with the cat-block. etc. The French martinet (q.v.) had twelve leather thongs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Photo Album: Cat-o'-nine-tails

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	Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Cat-o'-nine-tails

Usage Frequency: Cat-o'-nine-tails

"Cat-o'-nine-tails" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cat-o'-nine-tails" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Cat-o'-nine-tails

Language		Translations for "cat-o'-nine-tails"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kamzhik me shumë fije. (various references)

Bulgarian		бич от девет връзки. (various references)

Chinese		猫o' 九尾巴. (various references)

Czech		devítiocasá koèka. (various references)

Hungarian		kilencágú korbács. (various references)

Korean		� 양이 o' 아홉 꼬리. (various references)

Manx		kipp nuy arbyllagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		at-o'-nine-tailscay.(various references)

Portuguese		chicote (horsewhip, lash, quirt, scourge, whip). (various references)

Russian		кошка (cat, cat-o-nine-tails, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, moggy, pussy cat, pussycat, pussy-cat). (various references)

Spanish		azote (lash, scourge, stripe, whip). (various references)

Swedish		niosvansad katt, dagg (dew, dewy). (various references)

Turkish		dokuz kamçılı kırbaç. (various references)

Ukrainian		кішка-дев'ятихвостка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Cat-o'-nine-tails

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	Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: actinolites, alienations, atonalities, catenations, nationalise, nationalist.
	-4 letters: actinolite, alienation, annalistic, anticlines, antisocial, cantilenas, catenation, citational, clintonias, escalation, intestinal, lactations, lineations, natalities, nicotianas, nonelastic, sanitation, solicitant, tonalities.
	-5 letters: actinians, analcites, analities, anelastic, annotates, antialien, anticline, antinoise, atonalist, cantilena, caseation, cattaloes, citations, clintonia, coastline, coattails, cotenants, inactions, incitants, inelastic, insatiate, intonates, laciniate, lactation, laitances, lenitions.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Bahamas	Cat-o'-nine-tails are allowed at prisons but have not been used for several years. (references)
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	4	175,879

Cat-o'-nine-tails

Definition: Cat-o'-nine-tails

Cat-o'-nine-tails

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Anagrams: Cat-o'-nine-tails

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