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▪ I. whipping, vbl. n.|ˈhwɪpɪŋ|
Also (sense 2) Sc. wippen.
[f. whip v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of striking with or as with a whip.
a. The, or an, infliction of corporal punishment by strokes of a whip or rod; scourging, flogging, flagellation; loosely, beating with the hand or otherwise, slapping, spanking. Also fig. chastisement, disciplinary correction; defeat, ‘beating’ (U.S. colloq.).
1566Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VII. 142/1 Pd for whyppynge of a man xiid. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 556 Vse euerie man after his desart, and who should scape whipping. 1630Donne Serm., Matt. iv. 18–20 (1640) 733, I am not bound..to teare my flesh by inhumane whippings, and flagellations. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xvi. 110 To such a lad a frown may be a whipping. 1720Swift Mod. Educ. Wks. 1755 II. ii. 34 Whipping breaks the spirits of lads well born. 1752Chesterfield Let. to Dayrolles 18 Oct., Pray let my godson never know what a blow or a whipping is, unless for those things for which, were he a man, he would deserve them. 1835F. A. Chardon Jrnl. 10 July (1932) 37 Went to the Medicine dance last—Came back late and got a whipping from my Wife for my bad behaviour. 1866Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly xxxiii, She put him across her knee, pulled off an old slipper she was wearing, and gave him a sound whipping with its fat sole. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. xii, If a letter had been withheld by her father it was a part of her whipping. 1916Contemp. Rev. Nov. 623 The savage whippings of criminals. 1948A. Lomax in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 481/1 Give him a whuppin'. 1974W. Garner Big enough Wreath vii. 94 You swore there never was a whupping could make you holler.
b. gen. or in other connexions, e.g. the driving of a horse, or spinning of a top, with a whip.
1577Googe tr. Heresbach's Husb. 119 b, It must be sene to, that they [sc. horses drawing together] be euen matched, least the stronger spoyle the weaker, while he dreadeth the rating, and whipping. a1628F. Grevil Let. Hon. Lady iv, Our flesh being like a Toppe which only goes vpright with whipping. 1796Marshall Planting I. 150 The plants..will..become liable to lash each other's tops, with every blast of wind. This evil is called whipping of tops. 1917‘John Oxenham’ Loosing Lion's Whelps 21 Faces..bleached and sodden with the whipping of the wind.
c. Confectionery, etc. (See whip v. 7.)
1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 156 The blood contains a certain amount of fibrin,..which on whipping is separated in..stringy masses. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. iv, The whipping of creams, the stiffening of jellies, [etc.].
d. Angling. (See whip v. 8.)
1653Walton Angler xi. 205 There is no better sport then whipping for Bleaks in a boat in a Summers evening. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 60 To initiate a young angler..by his whipping for them in a hot summer's evening. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows v, What state is the river in?.. Will it do for whipping?
e. (See whip v. 6 d, 14.)
1834in Dk. Buckingham Crts. Will. IV. & Vict. (1861) II. 115, I rather think the Government, as they knew they would be weak, considered it..best..to take no pains in whipping. 1880Trevelyan C. J. Fox v. 196 It was an allusion which Burke made in the course of the evening to the industry of the Treasury officials that first rendered the term ‘whipping in’ classical. 1892Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 6/2 The Government is entitled to whatever credit is due to a good piece of whipping. 1901R. S. Warren Bell Tales of Greyhouse 48 Wardour, a trifle weary of the arduous task of whipping-in, had forged ahead. 1903Times 30 Mar. 7/6 Extra zeal..in the whipping-in of audiences.
f. The action of stirring up strong feelings or the like (see whip v. 13).
1952C. Day Lewis Grand Manner 12 This whipping-up of words into a frenzy. 1955Times 18 July 4/7 He had emphasized that the ‘whipping up’ of public opinion against South Africa..would..estrange the great majority of South Africans. 1959Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 6 This prospect suggests a possible explanation for his deliberate whipping-up of patriotic frenzy.
2. a. The action of overlaying or binding with cord or the like wound closely round and round; concr. the cord, etc. so wound around something (or each turn of it).
1540Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 4 Payd for whyppynge of roopes..viij d. 1673Wedderburn's Vocab. 38 (Jam.) Baculi caulis, the club shaft. Baculi manubrium, the handle where the wippen is. Baculi filum, the wippen. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋5 [He] whips the Cord again about the Page.., taking care that the several whippings lye parallel. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xvii. (Roxb.) 117/1 The whipping of the string, is that part where the arrow is set on. 1770Luckombe Hist. Printing 330 The lashings..will yield no longer to his whipping and pulling. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 28 For splicing an eye put on a good whipping. 1883Man. Seamanship for Boys 112 To whip the end of a rope..The turns of the whipping are always passed up towards the end of the rope. 1887J. H. Keene Fishing Tackle 90 The whipping of hooks on gimp.
b. Needlework. (See whip v. 18.)
1814Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 274 Tell Mrs. Haw..to prepare for plenty of hemming and whipping. 1866Mrs. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite ix, All kinds of stitches—embroidery, and plain over-and-over, and whippings, and darns. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 519 Whipping, a term..denoting a method of drawing up a piece of frilling..into gathers, by..sewing loosely over a delicately rolled edge of the same.
3.
†a. = whip-grafting. Obs.
1629Parkinson Parad. iii. vi. 547 For whipping, the time is somewhat later then grafting in the stocke.
b. Hoisting with a ‘whip’ (whip n. 15).
1835–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 87/1 There is no occasion in this case, in unloading a vessel of coals, to be confined to..what is called whipping. 1861,1887[see coal-whipping].
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. in sense 1, as whipping-audit (audit n. 3), whipping-bout, whipping-day, etc.; whipping-bench, a bench on which offenders are laid to be whipped; whipping-block, a block on which offenders are laid to be whipped; † whipping-cheer (humorous), flogging, flagellation; whipping cream, a grade of cream suitable for whipping; whipping-girl (cf. whipping-boy); whipping-hand = whip-hand; whipping-house U.S., a building in which at one time Blacks were whipped; whipping-place, a place at which offenders are or were publicly whipped; whipping-pole = next; whipping-post, a post set up, usually in a public place, to which offenders are or were tied to be whipped; whipping-stock, (a) = whippincrust; (b) a person who is frequently whipped (cf. laughing-stock); whipping-top, a top spun by whipping; also fig.; whipping-trade (sarcastic), the occupation of a schoolmaster.
a1658Cleveland Char. Country-Comm.-man Wks. (1687) 77 His Fate..is..a *whipping Audit, when he is wrung in the Withers by a Committee of Examinations.
1906Crockett White Plumes xiv, The *whipping-bench and a good dozen spare rods are what they want.
a1877Swinburne Lesbia Brandon (1952) 504 He..begged..that he might not be hoist across the *whipping-block by a servant. 1953R. Graves Poems 26 And taught St. Dominic's to baulk At gown and hood and whipping-block.
1772Nugent Hist. Fr. Gerund I. 160 Her husband had still the marks of a *whipping-bout.
1578Whetstone 1st Pt. Promos & Cass. iv. i. 2 She fearde of late, of *whipping cheere to smell. 1647Herrick Noble Numbers, Hell, Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds. 1683–4Thamasis's Advice to Painter 40 For his Cheat, the Man will pay full dear, Condemned by my Lord to Whipping Chear.
1924Techn. Bull. N.Y. State Agric. Exper. Station No. 113. 3 Good whipping cream gave a reduced volume of whipped cream when compared to poor *whipping cream. 1978Chicago June 248/2 Pure whipping cream for coffee and batters.
1712–13Swift Jrnl. to Stella 9 Jan., To-morrow..is his [sc. the Lord Treasurer's] day when all the ministers dine with him. He calls it *whipping-day{ddd}we do indeed usually rally him about his faults on that day.
1896Daily News 30 Dec. 5/1 There will always be a devotee ready to stand as *whipping-girl between him and the strokes of fate. 1906B. M. Croker Youngest Miss Mowbray viii, Ella did not speak; she did not even cry out, while she acted as the whipping-girl of her enemy.
1681Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. Postscr. Y, You have got the *whipping hand of him.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxix. 147 It was the universal custom to send women and young girls to *whipping-houses.
1631Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VIII. 427/2 The *whippinge place in the Markett. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Crim. Crts., Often have we strayed here, in sessions time, to catch a glimpse of the whipping-place.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden I. 360 note, In after times the Kaken or *whipping-pole, stood on the Stortorg.
1600Newe Metamorphosis (Nares) Be brought to th' *whipping post..And as a rogue stande ready to be whipt. 1741P. Tailfer etc. Narr. Georgia 37 Irons, Whipping-Posts, Gibbets, &c. were provided. 1849Thackeray Pendennis ii, He never was flogged, but it was a wonder how he escaped the whipping-post. 1854― Newcomes ii, No whipping post..could have been leaner than Mrs. Newcome.
1703De Foe Hymn to Pillory 250 In vain he struggl'd, he harangu'd in vain, To bring in *Whipping Sentences again.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 174 Send them to th' *whipping-stocke. 1678Penn in Life, Wks. 1782 I. p. lxii, We have been as the wool-sacks, and common whipping-stock of the kingdom.
1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. i. (Rtldg.) 225, I am born to be the mere *whipping-top of fortune. 1885Mozley Remin. Towns etc. II. 249 A boy's whipping-top.
a1704T. Brown's Wks. (1711) IV. 185 By Nature meant, by Want a Pedant made, Bl―re at first profess'd the *Whipping-trade.
b. in sense 2, as whipping cotton, whipping silk, whipping twine.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine French terms, Fisolle, or Ficelle, whipping-twine. 1887J. H. Keene Fishing Tackle 102 A piece of gold tinsel is..secured by one turn of the loose whipping silk. 1893E. Rosevear Text-bk. Needlework 208 Whipping cotton must be very..strong, and yet fine.
c. in sense 3 c, as whipping-hoist, whipping-jigger.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Whipping-hoist, a steam hoisting-device for use in buildings. 1895Daily News 13 July 5/4 A crane lifting eight tons, fitted with ‘whipping jigger’.
d. whipping side Austral. (see quot. 1965).
1957Stewart & Keesing Old Bush Songs ix. 259 You see our ringer already turned and he's on the whipping side. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 37 Whipping side, the name given to the last side of the sheep to be shorn and the blow here is down from the shoulder.
▪ II. ˈwhipping, ppl. a.
[f. whip v. + -ing2.]
That whips, in various senses.
1. Moving briskly or nimbly; acting vigorously or violently; characterized by such movement or action. (See senses of whip v. I.)
[1530: see whippingly below.] 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 17 A whipping Mistresse H. (whose toung goeth like the clacke of a Mill). 1656(title) Divine Fire⁓works..hinting what the Almighty Emanuel is doing in these wipping times. 1700R. Cromwell in Engl. Hist. Rev. (1898) XIII. 120 A whippinge sneezing cold. 1741Richardson Pamela xxxiii. III. 323, I have a whipping Stomach, and were there fifty Dishes, I always taste of every one. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. xviii, At a whipping pace.
2. Beating with or as with a whip; flogging; lashing; also fig.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria 1 The master of the rogues, a whipping Bedle. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xxvi. 84 The whipping Satyrist. 1904R. Cullum Hound from North ii, The whipping snow lashed their faces. 191919th Cent. Nov. 968 To become the drilling and whipping masters of the despised soldiery.
b. Whipping Tom: a man who whips others or flagellates himself (see quots. for various uses).
1681Hickeringill Vind. Naked Truth ii. 2 A furious chastizing Pædagogue, another Whipping-Tom, that took pleasure to lash and slash. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 21 A Detachment of the same Croisade, or Holy War, call'd Flagellantes or Whipping-Toms. a1728W. Kennett in Aubrey's Rem. Gentilisme (1881) 59 A Whipping Tom in Kent who disciplined the wandring Maids and Women till they were afraid to walk abroad. 1791Throsby Leicester 356 These whip-men, called Whipping-Toms, are preceded by a bell-man [etc.]. 1846Local Act (Leicester) 9 Vict. c. 29 §41. 1923 S. H. Skillington Let. to Editor, Early on Shrove Tuesday a crowd assembled in the Newarke, Leicester. At the sound of the ‘Pancake Bell’ a number of men and youths began a game of hockey or shinney. About 1 o'clock the ‘Whipping Toms’, three men in blue smocks with very long wagon whips, began to try to drive the shinney players out with their whips. The game was suppressed by Parliament in 1846.
Hence whippingly adv.
1530Palsgr. 844/1 Whyppyngly, hastely, hastiuement. Whyppingly, gorgyasly, gorgiasement. |