Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whipping_post

1 sense of whipping post

Sense 1
whipping post -- (post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped)
       => post -- (an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them")