cat o' nine tails

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English - Turkish
dokuz kamçılı kırbaç
dokuz kamçılı kırbaç
English - English
A whip having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment

If you should give such language at sea, you'd have a cat-o’-nine-tails laid cross your shoulders.

A similarly constructed leather nine-tail whip, as used in British penal colonies and certain armies
A cat o' nine tails
cat
cat-o'-nine-tails
a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat
cat-o'-nine-tails
whip with nine straps
cat-o'-nine-tails
a whip made of nine knotted strings, used in the past for punishing people
cat o' nine tails

    Hyphenation

    cat o' Nine tails

    Turkish pronunciation

    kät ō nayn teylz

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkat ˈō ˈnīn ˈtālz/ /ˈkæt ˈoʊ ˈnaɪn ˈteɪlz/
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