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flog someone round the fleet

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flog someone round the fleet (third-person singular simple present flogs someone round the fleet, present participle flogging someone round the fleet, simple past and past participle flogged someone round the fleet)

  1. (nautical, historical) To row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.
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