Flog

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flog \Flog\ (fl[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flogged} (fl[o^]gd);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Flogging} (-g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow,
     stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L.
     flagellare to whip. Cf. {Flagellate}.]
     To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to
     chastise with repeated blows.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flog
       v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
            the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
            [syn: {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {slash}, {strap},
             {trounce}]
       2: beat with a cane [syn: {cane}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
       [also: {flogging}, {flogged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "flog":
     baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane,
     castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate,
     flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad,
     hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle,
     nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize,
     pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting,
     strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce,
     truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop