Botany Bay dozen
(Australia, slang, obsolete, or, historical) 25 lashes, i.e.
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(Australia, slang, obsolete, or, historical) 25 lashes, i.e. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
If guilty, he is taken to a cart-wheel to receive a Botany Bay dozen, which is twenty-five lashes ;.
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