Brewer's: Furcam et Flagellum

(gallows and whip). The meanest of all servile tenures, the bondman being at the lord's mercy, both life and limb. (See Forks.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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