Horsewhip
['hɔːswɪp] or ['hɔrswɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a whip for controlling horses.
(verb.) whip with a whip intended for horses.
Typed by Eugenia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A whip for horses.
(v. t.) To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.
Checker: Luther
Examples
- Oh, Goodwin,' observed Mrs. Pott, 'does he mean to horsewhip the editor of the _Independent_--does he, Goodwin? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He went home, and shortly his mother appeared at the laboratory with a horsewhip, which she proposed to use on the proprietor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now go to bed and dream of him if you like, with the marks of my horsewhip on his shoulders. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- George as a boy had been horsewhipped in this room many times; his mother sitting sick on the stair listening to the cuts of the whip. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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