Flogging Instruments Dictionary (Ba)
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| Bacagual (Portuguese) | (Santa Catarina, Brazil) Scourge, whip. Twisted rawhide strip used as a rope |
| Bacalhau (Portuguese) | Literally, cod (the fish). Scourge used in Brazil to punish slaves. A whip with four leather strips as tails. |
| Bacchetta (Italian) | Rod. |
| Badine (French) | Rod, switch |
| Bćlte (Danish) | Belt |
| Baguette (French) | Rod, twig. Also the birch rod. (Birch) |
| Bahnpeitsche (German) | Driving whip |
| Baid (Urdu) | Cane |
| Baku (ż?) | A Philippine whip made with a ray's tail. See bantot ng pagi. |
| Balai (French) | Broom. I was used for punishments.
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| Ballena (Spanish) | See Whalebone |
| Bamboo (English) | Any of various chiefly tropical woody or arborescent grasses including some with hollow stems. The bamboo cane was used for punishment in China. The hollow cane was split at the punishing end, the sharp edges of the splits producing deep lacerations.
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| Bambú (Spanish) | Bamboo |
| Banda de carro (Spanish) | (Centro América) See fan belt |
| Banketrć (Danish) | Implement used for beating the
clothes when washing them. Used in the past for domestic punishments.
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| Baqueta (Spanish) | Ramrod. A rod for ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm. It was used in the "Carrera de baquetas" (ramrod race) Spanish military punishment, equivalent to "running the gauntlet". The culprit was forced to run between two rows of soldiers who hit him with their ramrods. The wooden ones, common in civilian guns, were used occasionally as rods for children punishments. |
| Baraço (Portuguese) | Rope for punishing offenders |
| Barberrem (Danish) | Razor strop |
| Barejón (Spanish) | Varejón |
| Barzu (Zarma) | (Nigeria) Whip |
| Bastăo (Portuguese) | A thick rod. Walking cane |
| Bastón (Spanish) | A thick rod. Walking cane
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| Bastón Policial (Spanish) | See Truncheon. |
| Bastone (Italian) | A thick rod. Walking cane. Also the rod. |
| Bat (English) | A short crop with a wide slapper.
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| Bat (Polish) | Whip
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| Battipanni (Italian) | Rug beater. It is the traditional children punishment implement from Italy, as it is the rod in England, the tawse in Scotland or the hairbrush in the USA. (the belt is used everywhere) See pala de sacudir alfombras. |
| Battoir (French) | (means paddle, racket or battledore). It is an implement used for beating the clothes when washing them. As obviously appropriated, it was used for domestic punishment. See article.
The name is also used for the wicker rug beater |
| Battoir a tapis(French) | Also tapette - tape-tapis. Rug beater. see Pala de sacudir alfombras. Battipanni |
| Bâton (French) | Rod, cane, stick. |
| Batog (Polish) | Whip |
| Batog (Russian) Батог | rod, cudgel, stick. A severe instrument used in Ancient Russia for punishment on the back and buttocks |
| Batuta (Tagalog) | Slang for Police stick. Stick |
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