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Flogging Instruments Dictionary (G)

 

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Garrotillo (Spanish)	(Panamá) Intrument for flogging horses and ocassionally kids or other persons, consisiting in a hard wood cilindrical handle with an eye for passing a rawhide or leather strap. Tajona, Mulero.
Gatto (Italian)	Cat. Like a flogger, but with metal points at the end of the tails
Gato de nove caudas (Portuguese)	Cat o'nine tails
Gato de nueve colas (Spanish)	Cat o'nine tails
Gatto a nove code(Italian)	Cat o'nine tails
Gesel (Dutch)	(generic) Scourge
Geselkat (Dutch)	(lit. whip cat) Cat o'nine tails
Geselkoord (Dutch)	(lit: flogging rope) Discipline, if made of rope
Geißel(German)	Scourge, whip
Gerte (German)	Rod, switch
Goasl (German)	(Hianzn dialect) Whip used in Bavaria for cracking. Groups of bachelors meet for whipcracking, swinging the whip over the head with both hands (Aperschnalzen). It is made from tarred cord. The handle is 2 1/2 feet long. image worldwidewhips
Goma (Spanish)	(Argentina) (pop, literally rubber)  Rubber police baton. See Truncheon. Also rubber hose used to punish.
Guacha (Spanish)	(Argentina) Rebenque  with a very short and thick handle, and with a very wide strap as a thong
Guaraca (Spanish)	(Del quéchua warak'a,) (Colombia, Chile, Ecuador y Peru) Whip, usually made of leather.
Guasca (Spanish)	(Del quechua waskha, cord or rope) 1. f. Am. Mer., P. Rico y R. Dom. Leather or rope strap used for reins or as a whip  - (Arg.) A rawhide strap. - A riders wwhip made with a twisted and dried bull penis (pizzle)
Gummisko (Danish)	See Zapatilla
Gürtel (German)	Belt. see Cinto
Gymshoe (English)	See Zapatilla

 

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