Search Result for "whipping post":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Whipping \Whip"ping\,
   a & n. from Whip, v.
   [1913 Webster]

   Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be
      legally whipped.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

whipping post
    n 1: post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to
         be whipped