The last side of a sheep to be shorn.
the shearer had completed the long blow and was cleaning the head on the whipping side
Example sentencesExamples
- I started the last side, the whipping side, each blow travelling out to the end of the last leg.
- I knelt with one knee on the board and kept coming down the whipping side.
- The whipping side of a sheep was the right-hand side, the last to be shorn.
- i drove 'em on the long blow and down the whipping side.
- My shears they will go freely when I'm on the whipping side.