subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A flogging of four cuts: see FARMER, Public School Word-Book.
c. 1840. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, 109. The ordinary punishment was called SCRUBBING … for a more serious breach of duty a flogging of six cuts was administered.
1864. Blackwood’s Magazine, xcv. 79. Underneath is the place of execution, where delinquents are ‘bibled’ … six cuts … four being the sum of a … ‘SCRUBBING.’
