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dog-whip
A whip for chastising or driving a dog. Cf. horsewhip.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1631) III. xii. 852/1 They did whip him about the Market with a dogge-whip, hauing three cords. 1677Marvell Arg. New Parl. Wks. 1776 II. 565 A cowardly baffled sea captain..once whipped with a dog whip.
attrib.1871Tennyson Last Tourn. 58 His visage ribb'd..with dogwhip-weals. |