0 the act of hitting someone with a stick as a punishment:
I do not object to the young man being punished but I do object to this caning.
School beatings were banned from Britain's private schools, bringing them in line with state-run schools where caning was outlawed 13 years previously.
Dirt and crust built up in the caning, and they couldn't clean it.
Punishments at this level were clubbing or caning, and the guilty might even be let off with simply a reprimand.
Management codified factory laws to enforce military punishments, either by detention, corporal punishment known as 'military caning,' or adjudication by military tribunal.
Prisoners sentenced to caning are detained in prison without any idea of when their punishment will be carried out.
It is because five of these canings took place yesterday at noon and the other four this morning.
