flog

flog
    v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often
         flogged the students"; "The children were severely
         trounced" [syn: {flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash},
         {slash}, {strap}, {trounce}]
    2: beat with a cane [syn: {cane}, {flog}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
    

Flog \Flog\ (fl[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flogged} (fl[o^]gd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Flogging} (-g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow,
   stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L.
   flagellare to whip. Cf. {Flagellate}.]
   To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to
   chastise with repeated blows.
   [1913 Webster]
    

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "flog":
      baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane,
      castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate,
      flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad,
      hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle,
      nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize,
      pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting,
      strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce,
      truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop