whipping (root: whip)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: whip=ping

CIDE DICTIONARY

whipping, a & n. 

 a & n. from Whip, v.  [1913 Webster]

Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

whipping, n.
1 a beating, esp. with a whip.
2 cord wound round in binding.

Idiom

whipping-boy
1 a scapegoat.
2 hist. a boy educated with a young prince and punished instead of him. whipping-cream cream suitable for whipping. whipping-post hist. a post used for public whippings. whipping-top a top kept spinning by blows of a lash.

THESAURUS

whipping

Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, gear, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping, quietus, rawhiding, rig, rigging, ropework, roping, ruin, running rigging, scourging, service, serving, smash, spanking, standing rigging, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, tackle, tackling, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment