[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who flogs.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xxi. (1737), 93. Tempeste was a mighty Flogger of Lads at Mountaigue College.
1713. Doctor no Changeling, 13. Doctor Busby, the Famous Flogger of Westminster.
1844. Ld. Brougham, A. Lunel, II. vi. 145. There is an apparatus at the common gaol, where a public flogger attends, and any master who has suspected his slaves of rebellious designs or other offences, sends them to the place; they are tied up with their limbs stretched over a rack, and the number of stripes is then accurately administered.
1876. J. Grant, History of the Burgh Schools of Scotland, II. v. 208, note. Dr Parr was quite as distinguished a flogger as a scholar; his rod-maker was a man who had been sentenced to be hanged, but had been cut down and resuscitated.
2. slang. A horse- or riding-whip.
1789. G. Parker, Life’s Painter, 173. Whip, flogger.
1795. Potter, Dict. Cant (ed. 2). Flogger, a whip.
18[?]. Sporting Times (Barrère & Leland). Compared with the light and elegant floggers of the present day, it is a heavy, common ‘riding companion,’ with a massive silver handle, with a short twisted lash.
3. A kind of tool (see quot.).
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., 348/2. Flogger. A bung-starter. An instrument for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
