whipstalkn.
/ˈhwɪpstɔːk/ dialect and U.S.
= whipstock n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool > of whip
whipstock1530
crop1562
whipstalk1592
whipstaff1599
whip-shaft1849
whip-handle1911
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F4v Bought you a whistle and a whipstalke too.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 329 Horrid belaboring of the poor horses' backs, with the butt-end of a hickory whip-stalk.
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General attributive.
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1861–2 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. (1865) 5 174 Never have we seen fifteen acres of apple tree nursery better cultivated..nothing of the whip-stalk order.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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