Tied up at the triangles. A machine to which a soldier was at one time fastened when flogged.
“He was tied up at the triangles, and branded ‘D.ʹ”—Ouidu: Under Two Flags, chap. vii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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