subs. (old).—A flagellator: the actual word in the orig. which has long been recognised as standard English: see WHIPPER.
1725. N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 56. Woe to our backsides, he is a greater WHIPMASTER than Busby himself.
subs. (old).—A flagellator: the actual word in the orig. which has long been recognised as standard English: see WHIPPER.
1725. N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 56. Woe to our backsides, he is a greater WHIPMASTER than Busby himself.
