Inflict corporal punishment on kid, for example (7)
I believe the answer is:
leather
'kid for example' is the definition.
(kid is a kind of leather)
'inflict corporal punishment on' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'on' could be 'at' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'at' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for leather that I've seen before include "Polishing cloth" , "Thrash" , "Cured animal hide" , "calf" , "Animal skins" .)