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Meanings of flogger in English

A torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders)

Usage of flogger in English
1
Then Jean-Claude stepped away from me, leaving the flogger in my hand.
Incubus Dreams
2
How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
3
The leper fled with his flogger in pursuit, while the gobernadorcillo cried, 'Catch him!
The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
4
How to employ a flogger or whip to excite.
The irish devil
5
The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
6
It was evident that he was no 'prentice hand at the business, but a good master flogger.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
7
Two should hold her by the arms while the professional flogger seared the white soft back of her.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
8
I was a Government flagellator, a flogger, you know, on the Sydney side, and I flogged those three men.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
9
Hence if a flogger is angry when I accuse him of being a Sadist, I guess that he is a Sadist.
A Dominie in Doubt
10
Gabbett, Sanders and Greenhill then go aside, and presently Sanders, coming to the Crow, said, He consented to act as flogger.
For the Term of His Natural Life
11
Accompanied by torch bearers, servants and the professional flogger, he led the way to the cell and flung open the door triumphantly.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
12
In the 1980s, one manager liked to discuss corporal punishment with young women -he had been an enthusiastic flogger at public school.
The Guardian
13
It was generally given out as "piece work" to one man, the "master-flogger," as you might term him, who employed the others.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel
14
How on earth did the Danish brick floggers manage it?
The Irish Times
15
The floggers and some whips were laid out by the bed in neat rows.
Bullet
16
Jamie then steps into a magical wonderland of trains instead of floggers, whips and riding crops.
The South African
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