piiskata — meaning in English

English meaning

• birch noun A tree with thin, often pale, peeling bark, common across the Northern Hemisphere.
• flagellate verb To hit someone with a whip.
• flog verb To whip or beat someone as a punishment.
• lash noun A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
• spank verb To strike someone, usually a child, on the buttocks with an open hand as punishment.
• swish noun A soft rustling or hissing sound, often caused by quick movement through the air.
• switch noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.
• whip noun A flexible rod or braided cord, often of leather, used to strike an animal or person, or to make a sharp cracking noise.

Senses

piiskata is used for these senses in English:

• flagellate (transitive) To whip or scourge.
• flog (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
• lash (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
• lash (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
• lash (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
• spank (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
• swish (transitive, slang, dated) To flog; to lash.
• switch To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.

birch — full definition

1. noun A tree with thin, often pale, peeling bark, common across the Northern Hemisphere.
2. noun A bundle of birch twigs formerly used as an instrument of corporal punishment.
3. verb To punish someone by beating them with a birch rod.

flagellate — full definition

1. verb To hit someone with a whip.
2. verb To scold someone severely.
3. verb (biology) Of sperm, to swing its tail from side to side.

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