Significats de cat-o'-nine-tails en anglès

So you see, Captain Trigger, the cat-o'-nine-tails has no terror for me.

Or shall we say a very stiff cat-o'-nine-tails with small hard knots upon it?

Upon a nail hung a small cat-o'-nine-tails of knotted whipcord.

If you don't, why, I reckon a cat-o'-nine-tails will fit the case pretty well.

Roma's voice cut at him as a cat-o'-nine-tails would rip the flesh of its victim.

This is one of the few penal institutions in our country where the cat-o'-nine-tails is used.

It's the cat-o'-nine-tails you want, and the bosen to lay on; and I'd do it myself.

The cat-o'-nine-tails was the favorite punishment for sailors.

Thirty lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails sounded like a picnic compared to the touchy-feely talk women always wanted.

You need the cat-o'-nine-tails right now, Frenchy.

He ran the cruel thing through his fingers as does a prison expert the cat-o'-nine-tails before laying on the lashes of penalty.

Their backs are bare, and they lash themselves with a cat-o'-nine-tails till the long train behind is covered all over with blood.

That is at football, by the way, not just the nation's game but its sackcloth and ashes, its cat-o'-nine-tails, its hemlock on the bedside table.

For years these unfortunate children carried the scars left on their backs by the thongs of cat-o'-nine-tails when he punished them for some slight misdemeanor.

Not the 'cat-o-nine-tails' variety, but people with a very odd job title.

He was going along the deck with his cat-o'-nine-tails in his hand.