Flogger

//flɑɡɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who flogs.

    "How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?"

  2. 2
    a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) wordnet
  3. 3
    A whip.

    "But the "Sac" party imagines that if the boy had not dropped his whip, their horse would have won, for he was so partial to his flogger, that the Treasure in all probability would have stopped to it, and Custance been just enabled to do him."

  4. 4
    A whip.; A lightweight whip with multiple lashes.

    "Savanna walked around the stock, unhooking her flogger from her belt."

  5. 5
    A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.

    "Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery."

Etymology

From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: flogger