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whipstock|ˈhwɪpstɒk|
[stock n.1]
1. a. The stick or staff to which the lash of a whip is attached; the handle of a whip.
1530Palsgr. 288/1 Whypstocke, manche dung fouet. 1608Shakes. Per. ii. ii. 51 He appeares To haue practis'd more the Whipstocke, then the Launce. 1655[G. Hall] Tri. Rome vi. 75 The Baalites spared their flesh lesse then her cruellest whip-stocks. 1850‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs iv. 52 Beating out the brains of one ruffian with a whip-stock he always carried. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. ii, Sitting down and leaning his chin upon his whipstock. 1895J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt 62 Having fishing material with us..I soon had the two whipstocks rigged up.
b. transf. A man who drives horses. contemptuous.
1615T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. iv, Out Carter. Hence durtie whipstocke.
†2. A whipping-post (= whipping-stock (a), whipping vbl. n. 4 a). Obs.
1619H. Hutton Follie's Anat. B 4 b, The beggers whip⁓stock, or the Gallowes hire. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 113 Suspected for a picklock Th' beedle led me to the whip-stock.
†3. A person who is frequently whipped (= whipping-stock (b), whipping vbl. n. 4 a); in quot. = flagellant n. Obs.
1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. i. iii. 24 Such were the famous whip-stocks in the time of Gregory the tenth.
†4. Naut. = whipstaff 2, whip n. 13. Obs.
1682Wheler Journ. to Greece iii. 286 In this Storm we broke the Whip-stock, and split the Stern.
5. Oil Industry. A long, tapered steel wedge which can be placed at the bottom of a hole to cause the drilling bit to deviate sideways, e.g. in directional drilling.
1903Dialect Notes II. 345 Whip-stock, n., an implement used in drilling past a set of tools when fast. 1935Econ. Geol. XXX. 740 Controlled deflection of a hole toward a specific objective through the use of whipstocks, knuckle⁓joints and improved methods of well surveying has given added flexibility to rotary tools. 1973J. W. Jenner in Hobson & Pohl Mod. Petroleum Technol. (ed. 4) iv. 128 The whipstock had to be pulled out of the hole and reset every 25 ft or so..in order to achieve sufficient angle build up.
6. attrib.: whipstock wise adv. phr., in the manner of a whipstock: in quot. applied to whip-grafting.
1608Plat Garden of Eden (1653) 117 Grafting whipstock wise, and letting in the cions into the stock by a slit, is good for young trees. |