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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… [Holme (2000)]. Whipcord was also used, then as now, for 'whipping' the end of a ROPE, that is binding it round to stop …
Old and New London
… to the court of justice. In the next room, where the whipping-stocks were, tradition says sentence of divorce was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Public services Public Services. A whipping post and stocks were erected in 1680. In 1749 there …