whipping post

Behind the two figures is a whipping post draped with cloth.

A tree trunk attached to its outside wall was once used as a whipping post.

Delaware actually continued to use the whipping post until 1952.

The leader stood in front of the whipping post, with four henchmen at his side.

The records are silent on the result, but the whipping post did not last as a punishment.

I didn't see him lasting long at the whipping post.

In some kind of reciprocity, I tell her about my father and the whipping post.

It seemed to fail others, also, and there was much use of the whipping post in the courtyard.

The nation's civil space program should not be a political whipping post.

I had never seen, before that, a whipping post used for its purpose.