Brewer's: Whip with Six Strings

(The). Called “the Bloody Statute.” The religious code of six articles enacted by Convocation and Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII. (1539).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Whipping Boy
Whip-dog Day
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