palach

[Simon Beattie]

"Scourger"? (The OED defines it as "an official charged with the duty of
whipping offenders", with some 19th-century citations (and earlier).)  It
also records "flogger", but with fewer citations (although it does give
"public flogger" as a term in one, which may suit).  "Lasher" is also
included, but with only two citations, both 17th-century.

Simon


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Sent: 20 December 2010 07:37
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Subject: [SEELANGS] palach

Dear all,

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to translate 'palach', when his role is
not to execute someone but to whip them?  Tis is a Bazhov skazka, and two
miscreants are being punished for letting some cows stray off and be eaten
by wolves. To call the man with the whip an executioner could seriously
confuse the reader.

The Oxford English Dictionary does have the word 'whipster', which may well
be the best solution.  But it certainly isn't a word I am familiar with.

Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD

tel. +44 207 603 3862





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