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ˈcart-whip
A whip used in driving a cart, a long heavy horse-whip.
1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5144/10 Carters are to ride with long Cart Whips. 1823Canning in Ann. Reg. (1824) 129/1 Driving the slaves, by means of a cart-whip.
Hence cart-whip v., to flog with a cart-whip.
1788Dibdin Mus. Tour liv. 222 They are cart-whipt and treated with much other cruelty. 1811Edin. Rev. XIX. 141 After a cart-whipping..he was carried to a sick-house. |