ash-plantn.
A sapling of the ash tree, used as a walking-stick, whip, goad, etc.
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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
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > made of wood > of specific tree
hickory1805
ash-plant1850
1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 180 Sit tight, and lay your ash plant well into his ears.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. i. 26 He..trudges away..supported by his son on one hand and an ash-plant in the other.
1918 P. MacGill Glenmornan vi. 140 He hit a bullock near him with his ash-plant.
1935 S. Spender Destructive Elem. 82 Stephen..is only recognizable at all by being made inseparable from his ashplant.
Derivatives
ash-plant v. to flog with an ash-plant (cf. ash v.1).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > with plant or nettles
nettlea1425
nettlefy1602
urticate1861
ash-plant1923
1923 G. B. Shaw Doctors' Delusions (1932) 346 Nothing will persuade me that any boy..really likes being kicked and ashplanted into doing the drudgery of a professional footballer.
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