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Whippings meaning
plural of whipping
Example sentences (6)
It was the first in a litany of recorded crimes: sodomy, poisoning, whippings, obscenity, kidnappings, rape.
They claim that WWF-backed anti-poaching units have carried out whippings, bamboo stick beatings, machete attacks, sexual assaults, shootings and killings.
He was charged under Section 420 of the Penal Code, which provides for a jail term of up to 10 years and whippings and also liable to a fine, upon conviction.
I’ve taken the world’s whippings for being born a girl as reason to believe I deserve only punishment and degradation, inflicted on myself, accepted towards myself.
The prisoners chopping sugar cane, subject to whippings and beatings, were almost exclusively black, concentrated on neighboring plantations owned by former slave drivers Edward Cunningham and Littleberry Ellis.
Executions were not uncommon, nor were whippings followed by forced labour.