a beating or flogging, esp. one administered with a whip or the like in punishment.

a defeat, as in sports.

an arrangement of cord, twine, or the like, whipped or wound about a thing, as to bind parts together or prevent unraveling, as at the end of a rope.

noun

caning , flogging , licking , pasting , pounding , pummeling , punishment , spanking , tanning , thrashing , trouncing , walloping , hiding , lashing , beating , drubbing , overthrow , rout , vanquishment