Flogging Instruments Dictionary (U-Z)
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| Wahdala (Ulwa) | (Honduras, Nicaragua) Scourge, whip, crop. A rod with a thong of twisted leather. |
| Wallis ting-ting (Tagalog) | (Filipinas) a broom (walis) made with a bundle of ribs (ting-ting) of coconut leaves. As the old Western brooms, it resembles a birch rod and is used as such for domestic punishments.
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| Waskha (Quechua) | (Argentina; Ayacucho, Perú) Strap, whip. Origin of the Spanish word huasca or guasca. |
| Whalebone (English) |
 (misnomer for baleen) A horny substance found in two rows of plates from 2 to 12 feet long attached along the upper jaw of whalebone whales and used esp. to stiffen stays or fans. It was made into round or flat strips. The round ones were used for the rod on riding crops or buggy whips and the flat ones for corsets. They are now replaced by plastic materials, but as they were handy, they were commonly used for punishment, the round ones as severe rods, and the flat ones as rulers or paddles.
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| Whang (English) | Strap, whip, and also a lash with those instruments. |
| Whip (English) | An instrument consisting usually of a handle and lash forming a flexible rod that is used for whipping. It is a generic term, but usually implies a single tail braided leather whip (Same for látigo in Spanish) |
| Winton rod (English) | The punishment instrument of Winchester College, one of the oldest English public schools. I was formed by 4 apple twigs on a wooden handle. |
| Woźnica (Polish) | Whip, probably a driving whip |
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| Yantok (Tagalog) | (lit: rattan)
Cane
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| Yard whip (English) | Short stock whip. They were used on foot in the cattle yard.
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| Yardstick (English) | Yard long ruler for
drawing on the blacboard. using for paddling students on the buttocks
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| Ysgors (Welsh) | Scourge |
| Yslath (Welsh) | Rod, twig |
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| Zaharo (Basque) | Whip, rod |
| Zaldi-zaharo (Basque) | Riding crop. see Fusta (zaldi means horse) |
| Zaldi-zigor (Basque) | Riding crop. see Fusta (zaldi means horse) |
| Zapatilla (Spanish) | Sneakers. They were a common punishment instrument at home, and the favorite of PE teachers at school.
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| Zarta (Basque) | Rod |
| Zartailu (Basque) | Scourge |
| Zennar (Arabic) | Belt |
| Zeribando (Portuguese) | Scourge, whip |
| Zigor (Basque) | Rod |
| Zirogna (Italian) | A whip made of a horse's penis. See Pizzle. |
| Zuchtpeitsche (German) | (correction whip) A wooden handle and the tails joined and wrapped in calfskin. It can be six to eight strips of pigskin bound together with twine (as used in Gotteszell) or of thin ropes braided together (as in Ludwigsburg). There was with this name also a "leichten" (light) one, made with three normal thickness straps sewn one over the other. |
| Zuip (Papiamento) | Whip |
| Zurriaga (Spanish) | Zurriago |
| Zorrague (Portuguese) | Azorrague |
| Zurriago(Spanish) | (from the Arab surriyaqa) Whip used for flogging, made of cord, leather or similar. Thick whip made of plaited leather |
| Zweep (Dutch) | Whip |
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