whip-stock

1) A post set up in a public place to which offenders were tied and whipped.

1664 All ouer ...whipestocke, butts and pinfoulds are ... in good repaire, Ovenden. In the following year it was referred to as the whippingestocke.

spellings whipping stock
places Ovenden
dates 1664

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