flog someone round the fleet

verb

To row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.

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Meanings

verbflog someone round the fleet (third-person singular simple present flogs someone round the fleet, present participle flogging someone round the fleet, simple past and past participle flogged someone round the fleet)

present singular third person flogs someone round the fleet · participle present flogging someone round the fleet · participle past flogged someone round the fleet · past flogged someone round the fleet

  1. historicalnauticalTo row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.
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