Rope's end

Rope's end

A rope's end was used as a spanking implement mainly for boys and adult sailors aboard ships such as the British Royal Navy.

It was used for lightest on-the-spot punishments and thus a form of unofficial corporal punishment (called cobbing), whereas official punishments were given with more severe implements such as the cat o' nine tails, birch or cane.

The rope's end was either knotted or plain and was given on the boy's or sailor's buttocks.

"Rope's end" is also the root of the name of the South American implement rebenque.

See also [ Whipping (rope) ]

List of Spanking Implements
Flat spanking implements bath brush (wooden or plastic) belt bimmy cooking spatula (wooden or plastic) dough scraper (rubber or silicone) flyswatter hairbrush (wooden or plastic) leather paddle Newspaper paddle (wooden paddle) ping-pong paddle ruler (wooden or plastic) slapper/flapper slipper / Plimsoll strap / Strop tawse wooden spoon Stick-like spanking implements blackboard pointer cane (rattan, bamboo etc.) crop ferula stick switch yardstick Other spanking implements baccalà (clipfish) birch carpet beater Quirt rope's end scourge stinging nettles Whipping implements include bullwhip cat o' nine tails chicotte (an African whip) flail flogger horsehair whip human hair whip klopfpeitsche loopy johnny martinet quirt rebenque (South American gaucho whip) rubber hose single-tail whip sjambok (South African whip)
Some spanking implements produce more "sting" while others produce more "thud". See "sting and thud" for more on this distinction.

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