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whipcord, n.|ˈhwɪpkɔːd|
[? f. whip v. III, with later association of whip n. I + cord n.1]
1. a. A thin tough kind of hempen cord, of which whip-lashes or the ends of them are made; in allusive use, the material of whip-lashes.
Perh. orig. Fine cord or twine for ‘whipping’ or binding closely round something.
1318–19in G. Oliver Lives Bps. Exeter etc. (1861) 381 Wyppe-cord, 3d. 1362–3Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 565 In xij peciis de Qwypcord empt. pro carectar. iiij d. 1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 215 Thei..bownde his armes be hynde hym with whippe cord like a theffe. 1487–8Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904) 131 For lyne and whippcorde to serve the same clothe, ij d. 1541in Essex Rev. XXI. 145 Payd for whipcorde for the pascall, ii d. c1616Fletcher Thierry & Theod. v. i, Beg, beg, and keep Constables waking, wear out stocks and whipcord. 1675Three Inhumane Murthers 6 The Judge Caus'd his Thumbs to be ty'd fast together with whipcord. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xix, He will neither spare whipcord nor spur-rowel. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxxii, He looks as hard as iron, and tough as whipcord.
b. A piece of this material, as a whip-lash or its extremity.
a1500Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) xvi. 430 Takes him here bounden fast, While a whipcord here will last. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 17 As far as the whipcord would stretch. a1700Evelyn Diary 11 Apr. 1645, Dashing the knotted and ravelled whipcord over their shoulders. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 63 One may break a whip-cord..with one's hand..by bringing one part of the rope to cut the other. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. I. vi. 58 Our eight-inch hawser parted like a whip-cord.
c. attrib. Tough as whipcord.
1879Browning Halbert & Hob 27 One whipcord nerve in the muscly mass from neck to shoulder-blade.
2. transf.
a. A kind of catgut.
1880Spon's Encycl. Manuf. ii. 609 To produce a cord—known as ‘whipcord’—from these intestines.
b. A close-woven ribbed worsted material used for dresses, riding breeches, etc. Also attrib.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 4/2 All Wool Black Whipcord Suiting..shows fine raised satin finished cords running diagonally through the cloth. 1897Daily News 9 Mar. 6/3 Whipcord coatings, bengalines in silk and wool. 1900Ibid. 16 Apr. 7/3, 60,000 pairs of whip-cord riding trousers. 1915R. Beaumont Woollen & Worsted 305 Warp Twills. Fancy Twills—Included in the former are the standard makes of fabric known as whip cords.
3. Applied (simply or attrib.) to
a. species of willow with very flexible shoots, as Salix purpurea or S. vitellina;
b. species of seaweed with long slender fronds, as Chorda Filum or Chordaria flagelliformis.
1812J. Walker Hebrides II. 273 Salix vitellina..is called..the whip-cord willow because its shoots are so tough and flexible, that they can be wrapt round the finger like a whip-cord. 1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side ii. 125 The Whipcord Fucus (Chordaria flagelliformis).
Hence ˈwhipcord v. trans., to furnish with whipcord; ˈwhipˌcordy a., resembling whipcord, sinewy.
1784R. Robinson Jrnl. 26 May in Belfast Monthly Mag. (1809) June 435/1 Whip-corded the boys' plough whips. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Cousin Phillis i, in Cornh. Mag. Nov. 627 He has often to whip-cord the plough⁓whips.
1856S. Wilberforce in Life (1881) II. 336 The Bishop (Exeter) wonderfully hale and *whipcordy. |