salt eel

== English == === Noun === salt eel (plural salt eels) An end piece of a rope cut off to be used as a whip. April 24, 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys: Up betimes, and with my salt eel went down in the parler and there got my boy and did beat him till I was fain to take breath two or three times [...] (by extension) A punishment by whipping.