beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

school.  to flog something to death to re-peat a joke or story over and over again (in-formal.)  it’s like flogging a dead horse it

To convert (an animal hide) into leather by subjecting it to a chemical process that stabilizes the proteins, making it less susceptible to decay, To make (a person or a person's skin) darker by exposure to the sun, To get or become tanned, transitive verb_ To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun, To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water, colloq. To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch, adjective_ Light or moderate yellowish-brown to brownish-orange, Having a suntan, Used in or relating to tanning, noun_ The bark of the oak, willow, chestnut, larch, hemlock, spruce, and other trees abounding in tannin, bruised and broken by a mill, and used for tanning hides, An embrowning of the skin by exposure to the sun, A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun

To strike repeatedly, To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter, To punish by hitting or whipping; flog, noun_ A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse, A steady succession of units of rhythm