Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders);
[syn: flogger, scourger]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flogger \Flog"ger\, n.
1. One who flogs.
[1913 Webster]
2. A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to
start the bung. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flogger
n 1: a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official
whose duty is to whip offenders) [syn: flogger,
scourger]