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Flogging Instruments Dictionary (Fa-Fle)
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| Faggot (English) | is a bundle of sticks or branches bound togheter, usually meant for use as firewood. Also used for punishment (see birch rod) |
| Faja (Spanish)
| Belt (specially in Centroamérica, Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela) |
| Falaka (Arabic)
| (Arab gulf, Turkey) The word is usually used for a long pole with an attached "U" made of rope, for fastening the feet of the person to be whipped on them (bastinado), but is also used for a crop two to three feet long with the shaft spiral wrapped by a rhinoceros leather strip. I has a knob at the top with a wrist strap. It is also the name of this type of punishment. See article. |
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Falanga(¿?) | See Falaka |
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Falaq(¿?) | See Falaka |
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Fallaggas (Greek) | See Falaka |
| Fan belt (English) | Anything whip-like was used for punishment, including the car's fan belt
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| Februa (Latin) | A goat skin strap used by ROman priestsin the Roman festivity of Lupercalia, used for hitting with religious purposes |
| Fent (Manx) | Belt |
| Ferle (Norwegian) | a long and narrow paddle |
| Ferle (Danish) | a long and narrow paddle |
| Ferrule (English) | Ferula (Latin) |
| Ferula (English) | Ferula (Latin) |
| Ferula (Italian) | Vara, Ferula (Latin) |
| Ferula (Latin) | It was used originally in the punishment context like in English rod. It is actually the stem of the Ferula communis, a European plant of the carrot family, that was used for punishment. Later its meaning was extended to a strap used for belting. See article. |
| Férula (Spanish) | See Ferula (Latin), and Palmeta |
| Férula (Portuguese) | Ferula (Latin) |
| Ferule (English) | Ferula(Latin). It is also the name of several instruments used for punishing the students by hitting them in the hands. It can be a flat piece of wood (see Palmeta), or can be made of two leather straps sewn together, with a bag at the end, filled with sand. |
| Férule (French) | Ferula (Latin), In France, it can also be just two leather straps sewn together with the end split in two tails ( tawse) |
| Ffrowyll (Welsh) | (from Latin flagellum) A whip |
| Fimbo (Swahili) | Cane, stick. In Belgian Congo also Sjambok |
| Flagello (Italian) | Flagelo
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| Flagellum (Latin) | Diminutive of Flagrum (see down). It could have two tails instead of the flagrums's three. Also an instrument for religious discipline, formed by a handle with five wire tails. |
| Flagelo (Spanish) | (Del lat. flagellum) Instrument for flogging |
| Flagelo (Portuguese) | Flagelo (Spanish) |
| Flagrum (Latin)
|  A short whip with three or more leather thongs attached. The tails had knots with brass or iron dumbbells or bone insertions at the points. It was the whip used to flagellate Jesus before the crucifixion. With a metal hook at the end of each tail, it was called a "scorpion". The tails could end in leaden balls. See article |
| Flail (English) | This word is used sometimes as a synonym of whip, but it is a hand thrashing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely. It was also the name of the medieval weapon consisting in a handle with a chain, at the end of which a spiked iron ball was attached. |
| Fléau (French) | See Flail |
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