whipping post
Flogging restraint pole
A whipping post is an upright post to which a person was tied for flogging as legal punishment.
Common in colonial America and used into the twentieth century in some states, it remains a symbol of brutal justice: The prisoner was led to the whipping post at dawn.
Figuratively, someone made a whipping post is repeatedly blamed or punished.
Beating as punishment
- lashingBeating or binding
- stripesParallel linear markings
- scourgingWhipping as punishment
- caningStriking with a rod
beating · birching · flagellation · corporal punishment · stocks · pillory · gallows · sentence
Southern rock group, siblings
- Southern rockBlues-meets-country guitar genre
- blues rockGuitar genre merging traditions
- guitar soloUnaccompanied string passage
- jam bandImprovisation-heavy live music group
Large-scale farming operation
- overseerOne who monitors work
- chattelMovable personal property
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
manacles · auction · antebellum · emancipation · abolitionist · colonialism · indentured · reconstruction
Raised skin from impact
- scarsHealed wound tissue
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
- gashesDeep, jagged incisions
- bruisingCausing tissue discoloration
wounds · bleeding · rawness · back · flesh · skin · stripes · marks
Assign responsibility for wrongdoing
- targetObject of pursuit
- fall guyOne blamed for others
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- criticismJudgment of faults
accountability · deflection · vulnerable · powerless · office politics · unfair treatment · easy target
flogging
Beating as punishment
caning · beating · birching · flagellation · corporal punishment · stocks · pillory · gallows · sentence · deterrence
Allman Brothers
Southern rock group, siblings
- Southern rockBlues-meets-country guitar genre
- blues rockGuitar genre merging traditions
- guitar soloUnaccompanied string passage
jam band · 1971 · classic rock
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- overseerOne who monitors work
- chattelMovable personal property
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
shackles · manacles · auction · antebellum · emancipation · abolitionist · colonialism · indentured · reconstruction · enslaved
welts
Raised skin from impact
- scarsHealed wound tissue
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
- gashesDeep, jagged incisions
bruising · wounds · bleeding · rawness · back · flesh · skin · stripes · marks · healing
blame
Assign responsibility for wrongdoing
criticism · accountability · deflection · vulnerable · powerless · office politics · unfair treatment · easy target
- posts and polesflagpole, telephone pole, utility pole, electric pole, power pole
- Georgian crimecapital offenses, death penalty, hanging, transportation, public execution
- corporal punishmentflogging, caning, lashing, beating, spanking
- punishment toolschains, shackles, rack, stocks, pillory
- torture devicesrack, iron maiden, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, pillory
- shaming devicespillory, stocks, ducking stool, scarlet letter, dunce cap
whipping postfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · emancipation · release · liberation · manumission
whipping postsanctuary
Protected sacred space
refuge · safe haven · shelter · comfort · protection
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