WHIPPING POST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whipping post mean? 

• WHIPPING POST (noun)
  The noun WHIPPING POST has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WHIPPING POST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIPPING POST (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)