whipping

whipping
/hwip"ing, wip"-/, n.
1. a beating or flogging, esp. one administered with a whip or the like in punishment.
2. a defeat, as in sports.
3. an arrangement of cord, twine, or the like, whipped or wound about a thing, as to bind parts together or prevent unraveling, as at the end of a rope.
[1530-40; WHIP + -ING1]

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