Flogging Instruments Dictionary (Pi-Py)
| Picha de toro (Spanish) | Pizzle (below)
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| Pig slapper (English) |
Made of two leather straps sewn together with a metal reinforcement in the
middle (as the dogging bat),
used for herding pigs. It is soft, because pigs bruise easily
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| Pimp Stick (English) | (1970's ,USA, black] Two wire coathangers twisted together to form a brutal whip |
| Pingalim (Portuguese) | Long and thin whip for punishing horses. Riding
Crop. Small whip used by Cavalry officers.
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| Ping-pong (paleta) (Spanish) |  Another
instrument used for at least one use not intended by the manufacturer. |
| Piraí (Portuguese) | (Brasil) Rawhide scourge |
| Pisk (Danish) | Whip, Blacksnake |
| Pisk (Norwegian) | Whip |
| Piiska (Finnish) | Birch rod, switch, whip |
| Piska (Swedish) | Whip |
| Pizzle (English) | A whip made of a bull's penis (pizzle). The
pizzle is cleaned, salted and dried. By twisting and stretching during this
process, it becomes a vicious, highly flexible whip of 3ft or more overall
length. The pizzle was intended for driving cattle, for self-defense, but
also for punishment purposes. See also
Vergajo.
See article
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| Plak (Dutch) | (lit.= Slab) Ferule. A wooden slab for hitting children's hands. In the old Dutch New York schools, a circular piece of board about four to five inches in diameter, with a handle attached. |
| Planche ŕ découper (French) | Cutting board. See Tabla de picar |
| Pleti (Russian) |
 A
three tailed whip that replaced the
knout punishment instrument in Russia in 1845. The tails could end in
leaden balls. Now also flogger |
| Pletka-deviatixvostka (Russian) плетка-девятихвостка | Cat o'nine tails |
| Plimsoll (English) | In England, the sneakers. See zapatilla |
| Poganiacz (Polish) | Whip, probably a herding whip |
| Polca (Spanish) | (Córdoba, Argentina) Whip with a longer and thinner handle than the talero. The handle was sometimes made with a piece of iron, covered with a rawhide cow leather or braided thin rawhide strips |
| Pomlázka (checo) | Whip
made with braided willow branches used
in the Eastern Monday festival in the Czech Republic, in which men get
women wet and flog them with the pomlázka for good luck on the next Spring. |
| Poronupäha (Guaraní) | Whip |
| Pretina (Spanish) | Belt |
| Puntero (Spanish) | see Blackboard pointer |
| Pussy cat (English) | see boy's cat |
| Pyta (Polish) | Whip |
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