horsewhipn.
/ˈhɔːshwɪp/ A whip for driving or controlling a horse.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
wandc1400
rod?a1475
riding rod?a1549
switch1597
quirka1616
whippet1616
shambrier1667
horsewhipa1691
whip-stick1782
lash-whip1787
flogger1789
string1839
nagaika1842
whalebone1842
quirt1845
switcher1847
ash-plant1850
hunting-crop1857
dick1864
bow-whip1890
a1691 G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 108 Then they..put me into the stocks,..and they brought dog-whips and horse-whips, threatening to whip me.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xv. 254 Riding out..with his horsewhip in his hand.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. xi. 184 Those impracticable beings, on whom good example, good advice, and a good horsewhip are equally thrown away.
1843 Knickerbocker 22 56 I'd like to have some on 'em tied to a tree, and have fair play at 'em with this horse-whip.
1856 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. (1858) viii. 74 They came drunk, and armed with..horse-whips.
1965 S. Hult tr. G. de Coulteray Sadism in Movies 111 It is horsewhips with which Christine Nordeu and Bery Baxter are armed in Idol of Paris.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
horsewhipv.
transitive. To chastise with a horsewhip.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > soundly or severely
scourge1297
bebreech1617
horsewhip1768
cart-whip1788
knout1790
stripe1843
quirt1846
kurbash1850
blacksnake1864
bullwhip1876
sjambok1881
1768 I. Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarissa iii. ii If you are a gentleman, you shall fight me; if you are a scrub, I'll horsewhip you.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux III. v. v. 83 I will fulfil your errand, and horsewhip him soundly.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures viii If I were a man I would horsewhip him.
Derivatives
ˈhorsewhipped adj.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > whipped
well-whipped1579
jerked1671
whipped1713
horsewhippedc1774
flagellated1836
knouted1851
flagellate1876
c1774 T. Erskine in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) III. 320 To save thy horse-whipp'd back from daily fears.
ˈhorsewhipping n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of
swepinga1300
stripec1485
flagellation1490
whipping1566
whipping-cheer1578
to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580
switchinga1640
horsewhipping1829
rawhiding1848
bashing1877
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux III. v. v. 83 If ever you meet him, give him a good horse-whipping on my account.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 20 If he tamely submits to a horsewhipping, he must be more or less than man.
ˈhorsewhipper n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips
whipper1552
jerker1565
scourger1580
lasher1611
firkera1626
whipster1670
yarker1677
bone-polisher1803
horsewhipper1808
flagellator1824
thong-man1876
sjambokker1953
1808 T. Erskine Epist. to Mrs. Clarke in Spirit of Public Jrnls. V. 405 A horse-whipper of carpets.
ˈhorsewhipship n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging
scourginga1340
flagellation1490
flagitation1490
whipping1566
scutching1611
whip-broth1615
firka1635
horsewhipship1842
flagellantism1855
cowhiding1859
knouting1887
sjamboking1899
1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 9 457 Ballinasloe, where this person performed his feat of horsewhipship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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