(Australia, slang, obsolete, or, historical) 25 lashes, i.e.
(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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(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) Penal servitude; transportation.
(Australia, slang, obsolete, pejorative) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.
, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
A place in the United Kingdom.