martinet à neuf cordes, fouet à neuf lanières

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Definition of martinet à neuf cordes, fouet à neuf lanières in French English dictionary

cat-o'-nine-tails

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 whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat

whip with nine straps

a whip made of nine knotted strings, used in the past for punishing people