flog someone round the fleet (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: flogs someone round the fleet
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flogging someone round the fleet
tags: participle
present
form: flogged someone round the fleet
tags: participle
past
form: flogged someone round the fleet
tags: past