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▪ I. horsewhip, n.|ˈhɔːshwɪp|
A whip for driving or controlling a horse.
1694G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 108 Then they..put me into the stocks,..and they brought dog-whips and horse-whips, threatening to whip me. 1766Smollett Trav. I. xv. 254 (Jod.) Riding out..with his horsewhip in his hand. 1809Malkin Gil Blas x. xi. (Rtldg.) 377 Those impracticable beings, on whom good example, good advice, and a good horsewhip, are equally thrown away. 1843Knickerbocker XXII. 56 I'd like to have some on 'em tied to a tree, and have fair play at 'em with this horse-whip. 1856P. Cartwright Autobiogr. (1858) viii. 74 They came drunk, and armed with..horse-whips. 1965S. Hult tr. G. de Coulteray's Sadism in Movies 111 It is horsewhips with which Christine Nordeu and Bery Baxter are armed in Idol of Paris.
▪ II. ˈhorsewhip, v.
[f. prec.: cf. whip v.]
trans. To chastise with a horsewhip.
1768Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarisse iii. ii, If you are a gentleman, you shall fight me; if you are a scrub, I'll horsewhip you. 1829Lytton Devereux v. v, I will fulfil your errand, and horsewhip him soundly. 1877Black Green Past. viii, If I were a man I would horsewhip him.
fig.1790J. B. Moreton Mann. W. Ind. 183 That he horsewhips and shoots you dead with a murdering infamous tongue.
Hence ˈhorsewhipped ppl. a., ˈhorsewhipping vbl. n. Also ˈhorsewhipper, ˈhorsewhipship.
c1774T. Erskine in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) III. 320 To save thy horse-whipp'd back from daily fears. 1808― Ep. to Mrs. Clarke ibid. V. 405 A horse-whipper of carpets. 1829Lytton Devereux v. v, If ever you meet him, give him a good horse-whipping on my account. 1842Tait's Mag. IX. 457 Ballinasloe, where this person performed his feat of horsewhipship. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 20 If he tamely submits to a horsewhipping, he must be more or less than man. |