Flogging Instruments Dictionary (So-Sw)
| Soga (Spanish) | See Rope |
| Sotee (Urdu) |
Switch. A rod from a tree branch |
| Soot (Arabic) |
Riding crop. See Fusta |
| Spanskrřr (Danish) | Cane |
| Spatola (Italian) | See Espátula |
| Spatula (English) | See Espátula |
| Spatula (Latin) | A leather paddle with a long handle, a round head, sometimes with a hole on the center, used by the Roman teachers to punish students hands. See Ferule |
| Spatule (French) | See Espátula |
| Spazzola per capelli (Italian) | Hairbrush. See cepillo para el pelo. |
| Spencer Paddle (English) | An oblong paddle with holes. The original model, supposedly designed by Harold Spencer, a schoolteacher in the Eastern US in the 1930s, was made of plywood. Spencer discovered that making holes to a paddle would avoid the cushioning effect of air. Anyway, holed paddles existed long before Spencer's time (see "palmatória", for instance) See paleta. Also article |
| Spö (Swedish) | Rod, switch, whip |
| Spoon, wooden (English) | See Cuchara |
| Sroghall (Scottish) | A whip |
| Sroghall (Irish) | A whip |
| Staffile (Italian) | A strap for hanging the stirrups from the saddle. Also used for a strap and a whip made of one leather strap. |
| Starter (English) | A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. See colt, rebenque ( Spanish, 1st meaning). Also chicote, colt, rope's end, togie |
| Stick (English) | A long slender piece of wood. Also used for a narrow paddle.
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| Stock (German) | Baton, cane, rod. |
| Stok (Dutch) | Rod, stick. Commonly used |
| Stock Whip (English)) |
 (Australia) A tipically australian work whip. The main difference with a bullwhip is a much longer handle, which makes cracking it easier. |
| Stonnacky | Also bosun's cane. A cane used by the bosun for punishing trainee children |
| Strap (English) | A band or loop of leather or rope. Also used in punishment context meaning belt (see cinto). It can be just a plain piece of leather, or can be a elaborate instrument, as the canadian strap illustrated here. The word is also used in Scotland for the tawse.
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| Streichriemen (German) | Razor Strop |
| Strokenzweep (Dutch) | Flogger |
| Strop (English) | Razor Strop |
| Struil (Gaelic) | (Scottish) Baton, cudgel (Irish) batón, whip, rod |
| Suavizador de navajas (Spanish) | A leather band for sharpening a razor. See Razor Strop. |
| Swagger Stick (English) | A short crop or stick
used by the military officers for punishing the soldiers, used nowadays as a
symbol of rank
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| Switch (English) | A slender flexible whip, rod, or twig. Typically the punishment consisted on making the one to be punished to prepare its own punishment instrument, cutting the twig and removing its leaves and the bark.
Also a cane that has been split at the striking end, producing two tongues. |
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