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▪ I. whip, n.|hwɪp|
Forms: 4–6 wippe, quippe, 4–7 whippe, 5–6 wyppe, whyppe, whyp, Sc. quhippe, (4 quyppe, 5 whhipp, Sc. qwype, quhipe, 6 Sc. quhyp, quhipp, whupe), 5–7 Sc. quhip, 6–7 whipp, (9 Sc. whup), 5– whip.
[Partly f. whip v., q.v.; partly a. (M)LG. wippe, wip quick movement, leap, moment of time, lift for raising a well-bucket or hoisting cargo, lever, = Du. wip see-saw, strappado, swipe, skip (in een wip in an instant, met een wip at one sweep), OHG. wipph (MHG. wipf, wif) quick movement. Fris. wip, wipp, in some of these senses, also = mousetrap, Sw. vipp pump-gear, early Da. vip, vippe, also hvip leap, skip, short distance, moment, swipe, flap, lappet, Da. vippe swipe, G. wippe see-saw, crane, swipe, windlass, pliable pole, etc. are from LG. (Early Flem. wippe whip, in Kilian, is dubious.)]
I. The instrument of flagellation, and connected senses.
1. a. An instrument for flogging or beating, consisting either of a rigid rod or stick with a lash of cord, leather, etc. attached, or of a flexible switch with or without a lash, used for driving horses, chastising human beings, and other purposes.
c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 154 Ses chivaus deyt le charetter De sa fowette [gloss a quippe] ou de sa ryote gyer [gloss haling-wippe]. c1340Nominale (Skeat) 886 Chareter ad sa reorte, Carter hathe his wippe. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 406 For which Almachius dide hym so bete With whippe of leed, til he the lif gan lete. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 315 Bynde hym to a pelere,..Than skorge hym with qwyppys. 1535Coverdale Prov. xxvi. 3 Vnto the horse belongeth a whyppe, to the Asse a brydle, and a rodde to the fooles backe. 1567Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VII. 142/2 Pd to Sponer for his attendans at y⊇ churche wth y⊇ whyppe..xd. 1597in J. Melvill's Autob. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 432 Into thy youthe, rejose to tholl the whupe. 1651Maldon, Essex, Burgh Deeds Bundle 82 No. 2 (MS.), xiid. paid Samuell Sturgeon for punishing of three persons by the whipp. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 112 The clust'ring Pack..hear with respect thy Whip Loud-clanging. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. II. 48 The coachman smacked his whip. 1868F. E. Paget Lucretia 173 Flick, flick, flick, went the whip.
b. In fig. or allusive use: cf. scourge n. 2, 3.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 427 She may be youre purgatorie She may be goddes meene and goddes whippe. 1406Hoccleve La Male Regle 118 Seeknesse, y meene, riotoures whippe. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 234 This act established chiefly sixe articles, wherof..of some it was named the whip with sixe strynges. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 176 And I forsooth in loue, I that haue beene loues whip! 1625Dekker Rod for Run-awayes Wks. (Grosart) IV. 278 Iehouah, when he is angry, holds three Whips..the Sword, Pestilence, and famine. 1647(title) A Fresh Whip for all scandalous Lyers. 1700Rowe Amb. Step-Mother iii. iii, Revenge shall..with her Iron whips Lash forth this lazy Ague from my Blood. 1817D'Israeli Cur. Lit. III. 312 Fanatics, who had..smarted under the satirical whips of the Dramatists. 1881Sheldon Dairy Farming 177/3 Artificial manures act as ‘whips’ or stimulants.
c. transf. The occupation or art of driving horses; coachmanship.
1792Holcroft Road to Ruin ii. 25 You may challenge the whole fraternity of the whip to match you. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxii, The coachman of the Marquis,..observing the rival charioteer was mending his pace, resolved, like a true brother of the whip,..to vindicate his right of precedence. 1851C. J. Apperley The Road 58 The taste for the whip has undoubtedly declined.
d. Phrases. a fair crack of the whip (colloq.): a fair chance to participate or act. † to drink or lick (up) on the whip: to have a ‘taste’ of the whip, to get a flogging. † a whip and a bell: something that detracts from one's comfort or pleasure (in allusion to the ancient Roman custom of attaching a whip and a bell to the chariot of a triumphing general, to drive away evil). whip and spur (advb., usually with ride): using both the whip and the spur to urge the horse on; at one's utmost speed, at a furious pace: cf. spur n.1 2 a. whip behind!, a cry to the driver of a horse vehicle calling his attention to the presence of some one riding on the back of the vehicle without his knowledge.
c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 378 For youre long taryyng Ye shal lik on the whyp. 1576Gascoigne Steele Glas 688 He shal be sure, to drinke upon the whippe. 1644Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 4 In all this Triumph there is a whip and a Bell. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 19 (1713) I. 127 Care and the compleat Character-Man are riding Whip and Spur who shall have the next Vacancy in Bedlam. 1684Otway Atheist i. i, To get rid of that Whip and a Bell, call'd thy Wife. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 197 Each fierce Logician..Came whip and spur, and dash'd thro' thin and thick. 1814Scott Wav. lxvi, I rode whip and spur to fetch the Chevalier. 1835Carrick etc. Laird of Logan (1841) 307 Some wandeidy weans cried ‘whip behind! whip behind!’ 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 179 I'll see you get a fair crack of the whip now, Mr. Watt. 1944L. Glassop We were Rats 2, I am sorry to have to tell you that the Lord's had a fair crack of the whip and He's missed the bus. 1957Technology Oct. 271/1 We should give the technical high school a trial..with a fair crack of the whip when the talent is being handed round. 1971Radio Times 19 Aug. 50/1 It is the first time in 4½ years that those opposing the present abortion law have been given a really fair crack of the whip on a B.B.C. panel.
2. a. An object resembling a whip: a slender flexible branch of a plant; a twig, sprig, switch; a collection or growth of such branches.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 146/1 Flagellum,..the whip or smal toptwig of the vine. 1881E. Ingersoll Oyster-Industry 250 Whips, slender branches used to mark the bounds of oyster-beds. (Connecticut.) 1908S. E. White Riverman xv, What, in the early year, had been merely a whip of brush, now had become a screen.
b. = whip aerial s.v. whip- 1 c.
1940Electronics July 68/2 The whip is used to increase the capacitance and to carry some current to greater heights. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 342/2 The aerial is an 8 ft. ‘whip’ which is swung into the vertical on arrival at a stopping place, being attached to the side of the caravan permanently, on an insulator. 1976S9 (N.Y.) Feb. 34/1 They are factory pretuned..and will take up to 500 watts of power, radiating from a 46-inch stainless steel whip.
3. a. A blow or stroke with, or as with, a whip; a lash, stripe; pl. a flogging. Now only Sc.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. ii. 294 Wiþe a cheik bane of ane as,..He let about hym qwype for qwype. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 145 He wyll gyue hym a whip. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. v. 38 It war weill wairit he gat his quhippis. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 70 For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time? 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie xxi, He's a coorse cratur, an' maun hae's whups.
b. fig. An attack, access (of illness or calamity). Sc. (Cf. whiff n.1 1 c.)
1891‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 89 Ye chose me—at a whip o' dearth—To represent ye. 1894‘Ian Maclaren’ Bonnie Brier Bush, Lachlan Campbell iii, If a body hes a bit whup o' illness.
c. pl. Abundance, ‘lots’. dial., Austral., and N.Z. (Cf. lashing vbl. n.1 b.)
1888G. G. B. Sproat Rose o' Dalma Linn 242 He'll hae whups o' tabacca. 1897I. Scott How I stole 10,000 Sheep vii. 29, I was glad to hear Jim come cantering up with ‘whips’ of bread, cheese, beer and horse-feed. 1904Blackw. Mag. Apr. 558/2, I must have lost ‘whips’ of blood. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xi. 183 Whips of room for us both. 1948R. Finlayson Tidal Creek i. vi. 59 ‘Didn't think old Podder would ever bother about that bit of land,’ says Uncle Ted. ‘Got whips of land.’ 1961G. Farwell Vanishing Australian 182 Then you want capital—whips of it.
4. a. One who wields a driving-whip; a driver of horses, a coachman. (Usually with descriptive adj. or phr. expressing skill or style.)
1775Sheridan Rivals i. i, None of the London whips of any degree of ton wear wigs now. 1837Dickens Pickw. xiii, You're a wery good whip, and can do what you like with your horses. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale v, The old boy is nothing of a whip. 1884Earl Malmesbury Mem. I. 16 He..drove four-in-hand better than any whip between Windsor and London.
b. Printing. A compositor who sets type speedily.
1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 409/1 Whip... (Printers), quick setter of type. a1974P. Evett in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) iii. 333, I was put into the piece ‘ship’ on the paper, where I can truly say I held my own, though I was no whip. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Sept. 1022/4 An average compositor at that time would have set a thousand characters or ens an hour, and a ‘whip’, or fast setter on piece-work, would have set upwards of fifteen hundred.
5. Hunting. = whipper-in 1.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlv, The two whips..possessing marvellous dexterity in casting the points of their long heavy whips at the thinnest part of any dog's skin who dares to straggle. 1860W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life I. 197 Gentlemen, I have been with you thirty-two years—one year as second whip, five as first whip, and twenty-six as huntsman.
6. A member of a particular party in Parliament whose duty it is to secure the attendance of members of that party on the occasion of an important division. Originally called whipper-in (whipper-in 2).
There is a variable number of Government Whips (under a Chief Whip) in both Houses of Parliament, who receive salaries paid out of public money. The Chief Whip in the Commons is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. In 1964, the additional post of Assistant Government Whip was created, several of whom are appointed.
1850Thackeray Pendennis II. vi. 52 Captain Raff, the honourable member for Epsom,..retired after the last Goodwood races, having accepted, as Mr. Hotspur, the whip of the party, said, a mission to the Levant. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. lviii, The Whip for his party hands it about..to keep men together who want to be off. 1855Ld. Lonsdale in Croker Papers (1884) III. 323 There never was a division where the calculators and whips were more out of their reckoning. 1884D. Anderson ‘Scenes’ in Commons 214 Mr. Sheil, a Parnellite Whip. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. xiv. 198 There is neither Government nor Opposition; neither leaders nor whips.
7. a. The action of ‘whipping up’ the members of a party for a Parliamentary division, or any body of persons for some united action.
1828Ellenborough Diary (1881) I. 42, I hear Planta did not send out the notes for the division to-night till yesterday evening, so that there was a general idea it was not to be made a Government question... On the other side there is a perfect whip. 1832Ld. Lyttelton in Corr. Sarah Lady L. (1912) 271 The latter was shut out, consequently there would have been 152. There must have been a great Whip. 1862Stanhope Pitt IV. 157 An anxious whip was made by both parties. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 2 May (1972) II. 608 It was carried..by a majority of 2 to 1, owing no doubt in great measure to the whip-up which the Prince of Wales had made. 1894Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 2/2 As a demonstration of Parnellism..it was mainly drawn from Dublin. The whip-up from the country was even less successful than formerly.
b. A call or appeal to a number of persons for contributions to a sum or fund; now usu. whip-round.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iv, If they would stand a whip of ten shillings a man, they might have a new boat. 1865Slang Dict., Whip, after the usual allowance of wine is drunk at mess, those who wish for more put a shilling each into a glass handed round to procure a further supply. 1874Jefferies Toilers of the Field (1892) 26 Wine ‘whips’ are formed, and the sherry circulates freely. 1874Hotten Slang Dict. 339 Whip-round. 1887Echo 23 Nov. 4/4 Neighbours, who knew that she had no money, instituted a ‘whip round’, and soon raised the necessary amount. 1888Daily News 27 Dec. 3/7 A ‘whip round’..for the Robin Dinner Fund for poor children in London. 1948M. Laski Tory Heaven i. 12 The whip-round for garments and the ladies' little cries when they were told that clothes were rationed at home. 1977Centuryan (Office Cleaning Services) Christmas 2/3 It appears a whip-round for the drinks was suggested. 1980A. Morice Death in Round xiv. 107 She..handed over the money that had been raised by the whip round. 1985Times 14 June 5 The extra money will have to be found by a nonrepayable whip-round among member states.
c. The written appeal or circular letter issued by a Parliament ‘whip’ to summon the members of his party.
1879T. H. S. Escott England II. 149 Having issued the whip, the great thing for the whip himself is to see that members do not slip through his fingers. 1884L'pool Mercury 18 Feb. 5/6 The following five-lined whip, headed ‘Most important,’ has been issued to members of the Opposition.
d. the whip: the discipline that goes with being a member of a party in Parliament; an MP's membership of a party.
1950Theimer & Campbell Encycl. World Politics 458/2 To decline the whip is a method of resignation from the party. 1955Times 24 May 15/1 Some effort had been made to arrive at a non-intervention arrangement, but it broke down when Mr. Walker was asked if he would accept the Conservative whip. 1966Listener 25 Aug. 289/1 If he is a member of the Labour Party, he is bound by the standing orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party... To defy the standing orders may involve the withdrawal of the whip. 1980B. Castle Castle Diaries 12 The bitterness intensified when, in October 1971, sixty-nine Labour MPs, headed by Roy Jenkins, defied the Labour whip and voted for Mr. Heath's motion.
8. A preparation of whipped cream, eggs, or the like.
1756World No. 201. ⁋3 If he will not be satisfied with whips and creams, he may carry his voraciousness to more liberal tables. 1813Sk. Char. (ed. 2) I. 86 There's cold meat for the men, soups for the married ladies, and puffs and whips for the girls. 1883Amer. Dishes 157 Chocolate Whips.
9. a. (associated or identified with sense 3.) A movement as of a whip or switch; a lashing motion; spec. a slight bending movement produced by sudden strain, as in a piece of mechanism, or in the barrel of a gun when fired.
1889Mrs. E. Kennard Landing a Prize xv. (1891) 113 Harry gave one backward whip of the [fishing-] rod. 1898Jrnl. R. U.S. Instit. Oct. 1140 The whip of the barrel when fired. 1907Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 4/2 The..frame [of a motor-car] is deepened in the centre to prevent whip.
b. Cricket. A whipping or springy action of the batsman's or bowler's wrist in playing or delivering the ball.
1903[see flick n.1 1 d]. 1923Cricketer Ann. 1922–3 78 Kilner bowls left hand slow..has a good action with a nice ‘whip’ in it.
II. A movement, and connected senses.
†10.
a. A sudden, brisk, or hasty movement; a start; occas. a sudden gust. Obs. (Cf. whip int.)
† with a whip Sir John: ‘before you can say Jack Robinson’.
a1553Udall Royster D. i. iii. (Arb.) 20 No haste but good, Madge Mumblecrust, for whip and whurre The olde prouerbe doth say, neuer made good furre. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 94 The hare at pinche turnth from him at a whip. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 259 This man..wanischit away as he had bene..ane quhipe of the whirle wind. 1583H. Howard Defensative E 4 b, The sodaine whippes of the wheele of fortune. 1631Mabbe Celestina iii. 39 With a whip-Sir Iohn, e'r you could scarce say this, shee was heere againe.
b. Fencing. A thrust in which the blade slides along the adversary's blade.
1771Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 86.
11. The brief time taken by a sudden movement; a moment, instant. Obs. exc. Sc.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4577 Thre wawes..Þe whilk in to rede blode þan War turned with'in a whhipp. 1808Jamieson s.v., In a whip, in a moment. 1836M. Mackintosh Cottager's Dau. 65 Syne in a whip she let him in.
III. Something moved briskly.
†12. A ‘spring trap’ for catching vermin, etc.
1590M[ascall] Bk. Fishing, etc. 63 The whippe or spring trappe. This Engine, is called the whip or spring. Ibid. 85 A whippe spring, made..to take Buzardes and Kites.
†13. Naut. A handle attached to the tiller, formerly used in small ships: = whipstaff 2. Obs.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Barre, La barre du timon, the whip of the Rudder (of a ship). Ibid., Molinet,..the roll wherein the whip of a Rudders tiller goes. a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), The Whippe is that staff which the Steeres-man dooth houlde in his hand, whereby he gouernes the helme..... In greate shipps they are not vsed.
14. Each of the arms or radii carrying the sails in a windmill.
1759Smeaton in Phil. Trans. LI. 149 note, The extreme bar is 1–3d of the radius (or whip, as it is called by the workmen), and is divided by the whip in the proportion of 3 to 5. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 599/1 In all the older windmills a shaft..carried four to six arms or whips on which long rectangular narrow sails were spread.
15. a. A simple kind of tackle or pulley, consisting of a single block with a rope rove through it (single whip); used on board ship, and in mining, etc. for hoisting, esp. light objects.
A double whip, whip on whip, or whip and runner consists of a standing block and a running block, the ‘fall’ or rope of the former being attached to the latter. whip and derry = whipsy-derry.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine, Whip, a sort of small tackle,..generally used to hoist up light bodies, as empty casks, &c. out of a ship's hold, which is accordingly called whipping them up. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 179 In this winding by the whip, a strict attention should be paid to the filling the kibbals to the brim. 1834Marryat Peter Simple xxviii, He..made a whip, and lowered me on deck. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 367 Whip-upon-whip, or a double Whip, is one whip applied to the fall of another. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Whip and Derry, an arrangement for raising the kibble, by means of a rope merely passing over a pulley and attached to a horse. 1904Fitchett Commander of ‘Hirondelle’ xvii. 191 A whip was being rigged from the mainyard to hoist in the wounded.
b. (See quot.)
1808Jamieson, Wheeps, the name given to the instrument used for raising, what are called the bridgeheads of a mill.
16. A fairground roundabout in which a continuous revolving chain carries a number of cars or tubs round an oval track, the tubs being pivoted so as to swing freely about their point of attachment to the chain.
A proprietary name in the U.S.
1925Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves! vi. 152, I could hardly drag him away from the Whip, and as for the Switchback, he looked like spending the rest of his life on it. 1937Hull & Whitlock Far-Distant Oxus xx. 277 Bridget, Anthony, and Peter went off for a ride on the ‘Whip’. 1969L. Moody Ruthless Ones ix. 96 They went into the fun fair and tried the big dipper, the wheel, the whip. 1976Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 June tm89 A. G. Mangels Co., Inc., Bay Shore, N.Y... Whip. For carnival type amusement ride... First use since at least as early as 1914. 1979C. Wood Bond & Moonraker v. 61 ‘The Whip’ of his childhood days, but revolving at a speed that would have..hurled it half-way across the fairground.
IV.
17. Needlework. A stitch of the kind described s.v. whip v. 18; an overcast stitch; the projecting portion of the stuff between such stitches.
1592Greene Greene's Vision Wks. (Grosart) XII. 226 A Stomacher of Tuft Mockado, and a Partlet cast ouer with a prittie whippe. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Whip,..a round sort of a Stitch in Sowing. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 519 Take up every Whip, or portion of the roll, between the stitches.
18. Weaving. (See quots.)
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 415 In the weaving of ribands and other ornamental works, many extraneous substances, totally unconnected with the warp or weft, are thrown in... These substances are merely held in the fabric by the intersection of..the warp and the weft, and are by the weavers denominated whips. 1863J. Watson Weaving vi. 206 Whip is the name given to that kind of yarn which is used for making the figures in lappet weaving, and it is made by twisting together so many ends of common yarn.
V.
†19. A bandage. Sc. Obs.
1504Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 465 For claith to be wippes to Johne Balfouris sair leg. 1507Ibid. IV. 15 For iiij elne Holland clath quhilk wes wippes to the Kingis arm that wes hurt.
†20. A wreath, garland. Sc. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis xii. iii. 19 Thar hedis dycht In wyppis of the haly herb vervane.
Add:[I.] [9.] c. A wrestling technique by which one's opponent is hurled into a somersault by a sharp wrench of the forearm. Irish whip (Anglo-Ir.), a brawling shoulder throw.
1958B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 280 He pulled me by the wrist over his shoulder, in what they called at home the Irish Whip. 1967E. McGirr Hearse with Horses vii. 164 There is a wrestling throw called the whip... It is spectacular and Piron felt the snap of bone in his forearm as he flew across the room.
▪ II. whip, v.|hwɪp|
Pa. tense and pple. whipped |hwɪpt|, whipt. Forms: 3 wippen, hwippen, 4 wippe, wype, 4–6 wyppe, whippe, 5 whype, 5–6 whyppe, 6 quip, wyp, Sc. quhip(pe, quhyppe, 8–9 Sc. wheep, 9 Sc. and dial. wip, 8– Sc. and U.S. dial. whup, 6– whip.
[The early history of this verb and its related noun is uncertain. The senses of both no doubt represent several independent adoptions or formations. With the earliest uses of the vb. cf. (M)LG., Du. wippen to move up and down or to and fro, swing, oscillate, leap, dance, = MHG. wipfen to dance; from LG. are app. derived early Da. vippe to raise with a swipe, clip coin, also † hvippe to move quickly, leap, beat with a whip (?), Da. vippe to toss, see-saw, Sw. vippa, G. wippen to rock, tilt, see-saw, strappado, WFris. wippe, wipje to move quickly. The base wip- is also represented by forms cited s.v. whip adv., and by several compounds, as (M)LG. wipgalge, Du. wipgalg, early Da. vippegalge strappado, Du. wipbrug, early Da. vippebrygge drawbridge, Du. wipplank see-saw, wipstaart wagtail, wipvisite flying visit, (M)LG. (G.) wipper money-clipper, LG. wipwap see-saw; and prob. G. wipfel tree-top, summit; Goth. wipja ‘crown’ represents a sense-development (‘wind or bind round’, branch III below) which is more extensively exemplified by the form derived from the variants weip-, waip- (Goth. waips wreath, crown, weipan to crown, ON. veipr head-dress, OHG. weif bandage; cf. wipe). Cf. the parallel sw-formations s.v. swepe n.1, swip v., swope. The spelling with wh was presumably adopted as being symbolic.]
I. To move briskly, etc.
1. intr.
†a. To flap violently with the wings.
a1250Owl & Night. 1066 (Cotton MS.) Þi song mai bo so longe genge Þat þu shalt wippen [v.r. hwippen] on a sprenge. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8197 When þey hadde longe to-gyder smyten,..Wyppyng wyþ wenges,..Cracchyng wiþ clawes.
b. gen. († occas. refl.) To make a sudden brisk movement; to move hastily or nimbly; to slip or shift quickly; almost always with adverbial extension (about, in, off, out, etc.).
c1440Alphabet of Tales 363 Sho..saw þe dure was oppyn, & whippid in & lokkid þe dure faste. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 69 b, When he by chaunce sawe a mous rennyng and whippyng about from place to place. 1548― etc. Erasm. Par. Mark ii. 13–17 The sicke of the palsey, when he whipt out of his bed, and went home vnto his house. 1592Greene Disput. B 4, Why then quoth shee, steppe into this Closet, hee whipt in hastely. 1599Shakes. Much Ado i. iii. 63, I whipt [Qo. whipt me] behind the Arras. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 189 The Bishop seeing..the imminent danger, whipt out at a backe doore. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) IV. 261, I can land these Ladies in France; whip over before they can get a passage back, [etc.]. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. v. ii, If your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin. 1786Burns Ordination vii, Oh rare! to see our elbucks wheep, And a' like lamb-tails flyin. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxix, We'll whip in at the back door. 1876Coursing Calendar 19 The hare then whipped downhill. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xiii, He whipped out of sight in a moment. 1907J. H. Patterson Man-Eaters of Tsavo xvii. 186 The moment he [sc. a rhinoceros] got wind of me, he whipped round in his tracks like a cat and came for me.
†c. with it, in same sense (see also whippet v.); also fig. in phr. to whip it in with, ? to ingratiate oneself with. Obs.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. iv. M iv b, Whipping it aboute for ioye. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lv. 216 Let's whip it away. a1704T. Brown Amusem. iii. (1709) 40, I found my Neighbour K―..was made a Commission-Officer by the Name of Captain Whip 'em, I..judg'd he had been Whipping it in with the Gentlewomen before mention'd.
2. a. trans. To move (something) in some way suddenly or briskly; to take, put, pull, push, strike, cut, flourish, etc. with a sudden vigorous movement or action; fig. to ‘come out with’, utter suddenly. Almost always with adverbial extension (away, off, out, up, etc.).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2249 When þou wypped of my hede at a wap one. c1380Sir Ferumbras 1617 Wyþ þat strok A wypede of his heued. c1450Mankind 788 in Macro Plays 29, I wyppe yt in þi cote; a-non yt wer don. 1513Douglas æneis x. vii. 128 With hys brycht brand his rycht hand he of quhyppyt. c1540Bk. Fayre Gentylwoman B j, She [sc. Fortune] whyppeth her wheele about. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 2173/2, I stirred out of my bed & whipt on my hose. 16001st Pt. Sir J. Oldcastle i. iii. 202 He..leapes behind me, whippes my purse away. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. i. 10 Hearing something stirre, He whips his Rapier out. a1704T. Brown Char. Jacobite Clergy Wks. 1711 IV. 262 If they can but get to be a Lord's Chaplain, they immediately whip on a long Scarf. 1740Richardson Pamela I. 165, I popt down, and whipt my fingers under the upper Tile. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. ad fin., I'll engage to whip her off to France. 1821Life D. Haggart (ed. 2) 98, I wheep't out my chive. 1827Lytton Pelham iii, ‘Ah! Grant, Grant!’ said Lord Vincent, eagerly, who saw another opportunity of whipping in a pun. 1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 6 When the Protestants found themselves in danger of being oppressed..they whipt another king upon the throne, and kept him there. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. v, Whipping a dozen into prison or into the pillory. 1889W. C. Russell Marooned ii. (1891) 6 These considerations..made me whip out, ‘Miss Grant, it is settled. We sail together.’
b. slang. To drink quickly, ‘toss off’. Usually with off or up. Hence fig. (see quot. 1687).
a1600Deloney Gentle Craft Wks. (1912) 164 When they had whipt off two or three quarts of wine. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. v. 24 Whip me off this glasse neatly [Fr. Fouette moy ce verre qualentement]. 1687Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, To whip off a Thing, to make short work with it, expedier (depecher promtement) quêque Chose. 1692L'Estrange Fables, Life æsop 11 The Fellow..Whips up the Drink, and gives Xanthus the Pott again Empty. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 188 Two honest quarts..down gullet whips he.
c. To make up quickly or hastily.
1611Cotgr., Fesse-breviaire, a Priest that quickly whips ouer, or mumbles vp, his Breuiarie. 1697Vanbrugh 2nd Pt. æsop 6 Fix upon the place of Treaty,..and whip up the Peace Like an Oyster. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 133 The Dedication to the Master was whipp'd up. 1861F. Nightingale Nursing 48 [The clever nurse] will not bring in the bad article, but not to disappoint the patient, she will whip up something else in a few minutes.
d. To pinch or steal, to make off with; † to swindle. slang (orig. Criminals').
1859G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 95 Whipped, cheated out of a share, or equal part of the plunder. 1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 259 Holding the mark till the tool whips his stone. Engaging a person's attention till the thief succeeds in stealing his diamond. 1946G. Kersh Clean, Bright & Slightly Oiled ii. 11 Hi, you, you give me back that dog-end you whipped. 1958M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More 19 ‘Where's your hat, Barnett?’.. ‘Dunno, Someone musta whipped it.’ 1976A. Miller Inside Outside xi. 173 One of them was rightly furious as the escaper had whipped (stolen) his overcoat. 1981P. O'Donnell Xanadu Talisman ix. 182 The Shah must've whipped this... Stashed it away in a Swiss bank.
†3. To pierce with a sword-thrust; to run through. Obs. slang.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Whipt through the Lungs, run through the Body with a Sword. 1710Addison Tatler No. 256 ⁋1 To make the sun shine through the criminal, or,..to whip him through the lungs. 1842C. Whitehead R. Savage xx, Why, you're not going there?.. This..fellow..would make nothing of whipping you through the body.
4. Fencing. intr. To make a thrust in which the blade slides along the opponent's blade. Also trans. with the blade as obj.
1771Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 90 By disengaging after you whip, you have Quarte-over-the-arm. 1861G. Chapman Foil Practice 13 Some fencers..perform the Parries of Quarte and Tierce by whipping the blade, with a forward action, along that of the adversary's. 1889W. H. Pollock Fencing iv. (Badm. Libr.) 82 The point must be raised towards the left shoulder, the hand drawn back a little towards the fencer's left breast, so that he may whip his blade neatly over the adversary's point.
5. Naut., etc. trans. To hoist or lower with a whip (whip n. 15).
1769[see whip n. 15]. 1835[see whipping vbl. n. 3 c]. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 336 The chair was ‘whipped’ up again instantly.
II. To use a whip, strike with a whip.
6. trans. To strike or beat with or as with a whip.
a. To punish or chastise with a whip or rod; to scourge, flog. Also loosely, to beat (esp. a child) with the hand or otherwise, to spank.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋716 Eek Dauid seith: that..they shul nat been whipped with men. 1483Cath. Angl. 416/1 To Whype, flagellare. 1583Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VII. 367/1 Pd for a cart tht gromes maide was whipte at vid. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 410 Come thou childe, Ile whip thee with a rod. 1605― Lear i. iv. 199 And you lie sirrah, wee'l haue you whipt. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 85 The pictures of Christ whipped, of Christ carrying his crosse, and of Christ praying in the garden. 1624Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. i. i. (ed. 2) 356 She..whipped him [sc. Cupid]..on the bare buttocks with her pantophle. 1664in Verney Mem. (1904) II. 214 If the ‘Whelps meddle with Sheepe, they must be tied to any Dead sheepe, and whipped soundly’. 1709Steele Tatler No. 76 ⁋1, I must whip my children for going into bad company. 1726–31Waldron Descr. Isle of Man (1865) 32 Two or three of them seized her, and pulling up her clothes, whipped her heartily:..she ran home.., telling what had befallen her, and showing her buttocks on which were the prints of several small hands. 1752Chesterfield Let. to Dayrolles 18 Oct., If a poor child is to be whipped equally for telling a lie, or for a snotty nose, he must of course think them equally criminal. 1813E. S. Barrett Heroine iii. (1909) 17 Master Bobby..mewed like a cat, when he was whipt. 1859Thackeray Virgin. lxii, She deserves to be whipped, and sent to bed. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ii. 1243 Ah, being young and pretty, 't were a shame To have her whipped in public.
1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 68 Whup,..Negro for whip. 1929W. Faulkner Sanctuary (1981) xi. 132 You done whupped him. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxviii. 504 Whyn't ya whup her, Ma?.. Go on, give her a whup. 1950Patterson & Conrad Scottsboro Boy iii. ii. 193, I told the warden I was not guilty of the charge and didn't want to be whupped. 1972J. Gores Dead Skip v. 31 He might have come after Bart..because he wanted to whup a nigger?
b. To drive away, out, etc. with a whip. Also fig.
1567Stanford Churchw. Acc. in Antiquary XVII. 169/2 For whipping dogges from y⊇ churche. 1599Shakes. Hen. V i. i. 29 Consideration like an Angell came, And whipt th' offending Adam out of him. 1667Poole Dial. betw. Prot. & Papist (1735) 100 Tho' he whipt some out of the Temple, yet he never whipt any into his Church. 1711Steele Spect. No. 157 ⁋1 We have so many Hundred unaccountable Creatures every Age whipped up into great Scholars. 1712― Ibid. No. 509 ⁋2 The..boys..were whipped away by a beadle. 1821–2Shelley Chas. I, ii. 58 If all turncoats were whipped out of palaces, poor Archy would be disgraced in good company. 1878R. Dick in Smiles R. D. viii. 82 The storm fairly whipped six vessels out of Scrabster Roads.
c. To drive or urge on (a horse, etc.) with strokes of a whip. Also (occas.) absol.
1587L. Mascall Cattle, Horses (1596) 118 Let him neuer vse to beat them [sc. horses] with the stock of the whip, but to whip them with the lash. 1598Chapman Iliad iv. [viii.] 70 Saturnia whipt her horse, And heauen gates guarded by the Howers, opte by their proper force. c1611Ibid. xv. 319 All whipt their chariots on. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vi, The man whipped his mules till they went as fast as possible. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xix, The coach, and the coachman, and the horses, rattled and jangled and whipped. 1852Thackeray Esmond i. xiii, Your lordship will upset the carriage if you whip so hotly. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xiii, So, whipping up his horse, he drove there. 1889Gunter That Frenchman xiii. 164 The driver..sees a chance to dodge through an opening in the crowded street, and suddenly whips up for the effort.
d. Hunting. whip in: to drive (hounds) with the whip back into the pack so as to prevent them from straying; absol. to act as whipper-in. whip off: to drive (the hounds) with the whip away from the chase; absol. to give over the chase.
1739[implied in whipper-in 1]. 1859Sporting Mag. Feb. 80 The hounds were whipped off, as the evening was closing on us. 1862Ibid. Dec. 438 James Stacey..formerly whipped-in to the late Lord Fitzhardinge's hounds. 1887Field 19 Feb. 231/1 Morris Hills, who whipped in to the Queen's Stag⁓hounds under Davis and King.
e. To spin (a top) by striking it with a whip.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 69 Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy Gigge. 1598― Merry W. v. i. 27 Since I..plaide Trewant, and whipt Top. 1697Dryden æneis vii. 528 As young Striplings whip the Top for sport. 1874Ruskin Fors Clav. xxxvii. (1896) II. 273 A nice little girl whipping a top on the pavement.
7. a. Confectionery, etc. To beat up into a froth (cream, eggs, etc.) with a fork, spoon, or other instrument; to prepare (a fancy dish) in this way; also fig. See also quot. 1845.
1673,1691[see whipped ppl. a. 3]. 1764E. Moxon Engl. Housew. (ed. 9) 123 Whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 177 If the blood be whipt with due care, the fibrin is obtained as a thick..mass, surrounding the twigs of the rod. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxxvi, When did I whip up syllabub sonnets? 1895Montrésor One who looked on 7, I went to the kitchen to whip a strawberry cream.
b. intr. Of cream: to be capable of being whipped.
1943Mod. Lang. Notes LVIII. 13 Cream whips quickly. 1979A. Parker County Recipe Notebk. viii. 108 Single cream..will not whip.
8. Angling. To cast the line upon the water with a movement like the stroke of a whip; to draw a fly or other bait along the surface by such a movement; intr., or trans. with the bait or (usually) the water as obj.
1653[see whipping vbl. n. 1 d]. 1832Lytton Eugene Aram i. ix, Now he whipped it [sc. the fly] lightly on the wave; now he slid it coquettishly along the surface. 1838James Robber ii, He prepared to ascend the stream, whipping it as he went with the light fly. 1883Black Shandon Bells xxix, He worked away, whipping industriously and mechanically. 1904H. Bindloss League of Leopard ii, [He] whipped several pools unsuccessfully.
9. a. trans. To strike like a whip, lash; to move or drive in this way.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 69 The Wind..blew so violently..that the Boughs of the Trees whipt them..before they got thither. 1796[see whipping vbl. n. 1 b]. 1799W. Nicol Pract. Planter iv. §9. 219 Suffer no plant to overtop or whip another; keep the extremities of all side branches just touching one another. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxii, One gusty, raw day,..the rain whipping the pavement. 1869Ld. Lytton Orval 67 On the wind That whips one through this wither'd waste. 1882Garden 14 Jan. 25/3 The foliage..whipped by the branches of other trees. 1884Marsden Cotton Spinning 90 The primitive method of whipping the cotton with willow wands.
b. intr. To lash, swish; also, to bend or spring like a whip or switch.
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 44/1 Lest the twigs should whip back into my face. 1893H. M. Doughty Our Wherry 76 We could see the mast..whip with the weight. 1894Crockett Raiders iii, The chill wind whipping about my shanks.
10. trans. To bring, get, render, make, or produce by whipping (lit. or fig.).
1635J. Taylor (Water P.) Old, Old Man D 3, Those Royall Opinions were whip'd out of him. a1716South Serm. (1744) IX. 154 Those..whose religion lies no deeper than their skin, may whip themselves holy. 1740J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 26 Having had Lily whipp'd into them at School. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1190 A clown going round and whipping a ring: that is, making a circular space amongst the spectators with a whip. 1884Haweis My Musical Life I. 42 He taught me how to whip instead of scraping the sound out [of the violin]. 1889Cornhill Mag. Apr. 356 The cold has whipped red roses on her cheeks.
11. fig. To vex, afflict, torment; to punish, chastise; to administer severe satire or reproof to, ‘lash’, ‘castigate’.
1530Palsgr. 781/1, I whyppe with a shrode tourne, je baille belle. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 178 b, With what great tormentes & afflictions God hath whypped & scorged this miserable Isle. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 151 Now step I forth to whip hypocrisie. 1651H. More Enthus. Tri. (1656) 71 So unmercifully to whip poor Aristotle. 1831James Phil. Augustus xxx, More likely..that some little unforeseen accident..should prove our best calculations false, and whip us with our own policy! 1891Kipling Light that Failed xiv, He pressed the girl more closely to himself because the pain whipped him.
†b. esp. imp. as a mild execration: = ‘confound’, ‘hang’. Obs.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. i. 49 Whip me such honest knaues. 1608― Per. iv. ii. 91 Marie whip the Gosseling. 1759Compl. Letter-writer (ed. 6) 221 And yet, whip it, there is a satisfaction in reflecting [etc.]. 1872Spilling Giles's Trip ix. (1920) 109 Tarnin' round I'll be whipped if the same mischievous brute han't managed to get it throw them wires.
12. To overcome, vanquish, defeat; to surpass, outdo: = beat v.1 10. Now U.S. colloq. Phr. to whip one's weight in wildcats and varr.: (to be able) to fight vigorously; to be fit and strong. Chiefly U.S. ? Obs.
1571Campion Hist. Irel. ii. i. (1633) 64 Reymond..whipped the Rebells, quieted Leinster. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxvi. 100 Ȝe neid na ma bot Gedionis thre hunder To quhip your fais. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 17 You will whip the Spaniards in point of generousness. 1828Spirit of Seventy-Six (Frankfort, Kentucky) 17 Jan. 3/5, I can ride upon a streak of lightning, whip my weight in wild cats. 1834Sk. David Crockett xiii. 164 I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods,..; can whip my weight in wild cats. 1836Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxvi, The British can whip the whole airth, and we can whip the British. 1852H. C. Watson Nights in Block-House 20 Not as long as I can whip my weight in catamounts or bar, I'll never give in. 1861Lever One of them xl, We can whip all cre-ātion. 1870G. H. Lewes Let. 17 May in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) V. 96 We hope to see you both come back ready to ‘whip your weight in polecats’. You will not find us in that vigorous condition! 1878[see once adv. A. γ]. 1901R. S. Warren Bell Tales of Greyhouse 18 If Eccles uses his weight cleverly, Wardour will be whipped to a cert. 1906Dialect Notes III. 164 Whup,..to vanquish, to punish, to tire. ‘That whups me.’ 1968Punch 25 Sept. 451/2 The Matt Dillon urge to ‘whup’ the Commies.
13. To urge, incite, rouse; to restore to energy or vitality, revive.
1573Hatton Let. in Ld. Campbell Chancellors xlv. (1857) II. 265 Shame whippeth me forward. 1815H. M. Williams Narr. Events France xi. 234 Their dormant patriotism was now awakened, bribed or whipped up. 1835C. C. F. Greville Mem. 18 July (1875) III. xxviii. 280 On this occasion I whipped up the old friendship. 1894A. Robertson Nuggets 29 He cuffed and whipped his brains to no purpose.
14. (orig. fig. from 6 d.) To summon to attend, as the members of a party for a division in Parliament, or any body of persons for some united action. Const. in, up; also simply or absol. Cf. whip n. 6.
1742H. Finch Let. 18 Nov. in P. D. G. Thomas House of Commons in 18th Cent. (1971) vi. 114 The Whigs for once in their lives have whipped in better than the Tories. 1769Burke 8 May in Sir H. Cavendish Debates Ho. Comm. (1841) I. 426/1 [Here Mr. Burke mentioned the ministry's sending for their friends to the north and to Paris,] whipping them in; [than which, he said, there could not be a better phrase]. 1805M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) II. 191 On the question of the Georgia claims..he undertook to whip in his party. 1833Macaulay Let. 28 Oct. in Trevelyan Life & Lett. (1876) I. v. 336 Lord Essex was there,..whipping up for a dinner-party. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 62 With no room for trickery or cajolery, or whipping-up uninformed voters. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 9/1 The Liberals will probably support it and whip for it. 1898J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. i. 23 A literary friend..whipped up a small syndicate of companions to support me.
†15. pa. pple. Streaked, striped. (After F. fouetté.) Obs.
1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 137 Another sort [of fig]..is pretty black, having only its Skin a little whipt with gray. 1699L. Meager Art of Gardening 139 It hath white Leafs edged and whiped about, and feathered in the middle with a deep brown purple. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 241 [Tulip] of a sad Red-colour about the Edges, whipped with Crimson.
16. Phrases.
a. to whip the cat: used (chiefly dial. or techn. colloq.) in various senses, some of which are not satisfactorily explained.
† (a) To get drunk; ? = ‘to shoot the cat’. (b) ? To lay the blame of one's offences on some one else. (c) To work as an itinerant tailor, carpenter, etc. at private houses by the day. (d) To play a practical joke, for description of which see cat n.1 14. (e) To practise extreme parsimony. (f) To shirk work on Monday. (g) Cards. (See quot. 1854.) (h) Austral. and N.Z. To complain or moan. Cf. whip-cat (under whip- 2).
1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Arrant Thiefe (1625) C 2 b, To be a Drunkard, and the cat to whip, Is call'd the king of all good Fellowship. 1793Philadelphia Ledger 19 June in Daily Chron. (1902) 5 July 5/1 ‘Whipping the Cat!’:—‘Mirabeau's ashes were dispersed as belonging to a traitor, by the patriot Brissot, who is styled a villain by the patriot Egalité,’ [etc.]. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, To whip the cat, to practise the most pinching parsimony, grudging even shreds and scraps to the cat. In Suffolk the phrase..is applied to a practice..of the village tailor going from house to house to work. 1845S. Judd Margaret iii, Made shoes, a trade he prosecuted in an itinerating manner from house to house—‘whipping the cat,’ as it was termed. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., When one of the players at the game of whist wins all the tricks in one deal, he is said to whip the cat. 1859Slang Dict., Whipping the cat, when an operative works at a private house by the day,—term amongst tailors and carpenters. 1892Bulletin (Sydney) 7 May 10/3 Now he only ‘whips the cat’ at the bottom of the Carlton poll. 1897Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, To whip the cat is modern working-men's slang for shirking work and enjoying oneself on Monday. 1909H. Thompson Ballads about Business 12 You could make tenners den like vinkin', dough Now you are vippin' der cat. 1911Triad 10 June 18 Tell him [sc. a misled person] he has leave to go and whip the cat. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xxiii. 194 If there's anything wants doing you've only got to ask Macy Donovan... And he makes light of it, too. No whipping the cat: no setting himself up as a little tin god.
b. to whip the devil round the post (U.S. around the stump): see devil n. 22 n.
1786Belknap Papers i. (1877) 427 What the Virginians call ‘whipping the devil round a stump’. 1841Congr. Globe 7 July 132/3 Many men in the State Legislatures..have run their constituents so deeply in debt, that now they want to whip the devil around the stump, and get somebody else to tax them. 1887Japan Mail in J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiom. Phr. s.v. Devil, It is asserted..that the devil might be whipped round the Tientsin Convention.
III. To bind round or over. (This group of senses is prob. represented earlier in the compound whipcord, which appears 1318–19.)
17. a. trans. To overlay (a rope, string, or other object) with cord, thread, or the like wound closely and regularly round and round; to bind round or ‘serve’ (serve v.1 54 a) with cord, etc. Also, to bind (cord, etc.) in this way round something.
c1440Promp. Parv. 524/2 Whyppyn, as sylke womene (K., P. whyppyn or closyn threde in sylke), obvolvo. 1561Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 102 For whippinge the seconde belle rope..ij d. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 44 They must haue..their [bow-]stringes whipped & waxed ouer with glew. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm iv. xvi. 512 Then with a silke thred, of the colour of your line, whip and warpe the hooke round about. 1651T. Barker Art of Angling (1820) 15 Lay..the poynt of the feather towards the shank of the hook, then whip it three or four time[s] about the hook with the..silk. 1676Cotton Angler ii. v. 39 Take a strong small silk..and then whip it twice or thrice about the bare hook. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. i. §2. (1689) 2 Whale-bone made round & taper, & whip'd with Shoomaker's Wax, and Silk. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine, To Whip,..to tie a piece of pack-thread, spun-yarn, &c. about the end of a rope, to prevent it from being untwisted. 1770Luckombe Hist. Printing 330 He begin[s] at the opposite..corner of the Plattin, and lashes and whips that. 1836Ronalds Fly-Fisher's Entom. 28 Holding a fine thread well waxed..in one hand, whip a part of it three or four times round the end of the shank of the hook. 1887Rider Haggard Allan Quatermain iv, It was whipped round at intervals..with copper wire.
b. To fasten or ‘seize’ (seize v. 10 b) by binding in this way.
1760Sir J. Hawkins Walton's Angler 254 note, For whipping on a Hook take the following directions. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 10 Cut about six inches off the top of the rod, and in its place whip on a smooth, round and taper piece of whalebone. 1884St. James's Gaz. 21 June 6/2 The old method of whipping on the wings..is objectionable for wet-fly fishing. 1885J. B. Leno Boot & Shoemaking ix. 67 The side linings [of a Wellington] are whipped or hemmed on with either awl or needle.
18. Needlework.
†a. ? To trim or ornament with embroidery (obs.).
b. To sew over and over, to overcast.
c. To draw into gathers, as a frill, by a combination of overcast and running stitch.
a1548[see whipped ppl. a. 1]. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 221 Veluet-breeches,..drawn ouer with the best Spanish Satine, and..curiously ouer whipt with gold twist. 1612Webster White Devil K 2, A Lawyer In a gowne whipt with veluet. 17..Drury Rival Milliners i. ii, All the Day We're forc'd to whip and stitch the Time away. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Aunt Fanny 61 Whipping the Frill. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlvi. (1856) 425 They have been busy..whipping and stitching the seal-skins with reindeer tendon thread.
†19. trans. To bind about, wreathe, entwine. Sc. Obs.
c1500Kennedy Passion of Christ 8 Haill, in my Hert with Lufe wippit Intern! 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe vii, Thair brycht hairis..In tressis clere, wyppit [Bann. MS. wypit] wyth goldyn thredis. 1513Douglas æneis vii. vii. 114 To the, Bacchus, scho raisit..Gret lang speris,..Wyth wyne tre branchis wyppit. [1802Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry IV. Gloss., Quhip, Wipp, Wipe, to bind about.]
▪ III. † whip, int. and adv. Obs.
[The vb. stem used as int. and adv.; cf. Du. wip (e.g. in en wip was hij weg!), and LG. wip(p)s.]
Suddenly, forthwith, instantly, in a trice; quick! presto! Also in comb., as whip-dash, whip-slap.
c1460Wisdom 518 in Macro Plays 52 ‘Farewell’, quod I; ‘þe deuyll ys wppe!’ Ibid. 554 Wyppe wyrre & care a-wey! [Cf. quot. a 1553 s.v. whip n. 11.] 1525W. Smith Wyddow Edyth (1573) F j, Whip quod Thomas and got him down ward And commeth agayne with the cup full. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 309 Whip to our Tents. 1676Shadwell Virtuoso ii. 19 You should see how I wou'd shew my parts, Whip-slap dash. Ibid. 26 With a helter-skelter, whip-dash. 1699A. Roberts Voy. Levant 5 If any one happen to say anything amiss, whip 'tis at the Captains ears. 1748Richardson Clarissa VII. 341 When I came, whip, was the key turned upon their girls. 1806Simple Narr. I. 167 But whip, before I could say Jack Robinson, he sprung into the chaise. |