twenty-fiver

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The degree of pain varied very much according to the delicacy of skin, and no doubt some boys one of our comrades had been flogged about twenty-five times did not feel much after many floggings, becoming literally case-hardened; whereas, we have known a boy compelled to stay in bed two or three days from the effects of a flogging which would have left little mark upon the "twenty-fiver."

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873