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To make a cat o' nine tails, a rope is unraveled into three small ropes, each of which is unraveled again. The 19th-century British naval cat was made out of a piece of rope, thicker than a man's wrist (about 6 centimetres or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. The first ninety centimetres (3 ft) were stiff and solid, and the ...
Typha latifolia is a perennial, herbaceous flowering wetland plant in the family Typhaceae.It is known commonly as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush, [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha); in North America, it is often referred to as broadleaf cattail, or simply as cat-tail or cattail reed. [7]
The Cat o' Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code) is a 1971 English-language Italian film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from a story by Dardano Sacchetti, Luigi Cozzi, and an uncredited Bryan Edgar Wallace. [4] It stars Karl Malden, James Franciscus, and Catherine Spaak. [5]
Cat o' nine tails, a nine-tailed whip; Nine-tailed fox spirit; Typha latifolia, a perennial herbaceous plant commonly named "cat-o'-nine-tails"
Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō, bullrush, [7 ...
A naval flogging with a ladder and cat of nine tails. Frederick John White was a soldier in the 7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) (commonly known as the 7th Hussars), born in January 1819 and originating from Nottingham.
The cat o' nine tails is a type of multi-tailed whip. Cat o' nine tails may also refer to: Literature. Cat O'Nine Tails, a 2007 novel by Julia Golding; Cat O ...
Hydriastele wendlandiana, commonly known as Wendland's palm, [4] cat o' nine tails, creek palm [5] or kentia palm, [6] is a tall, multi-stemmed tree in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to New Guinea and the Australian states of Queensland and the Northern Territory .