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▪ I. quirt, n. U.S.|kwɜːt|
Also quirk.
[ad. Mexican Sp. cuarta whip.]
A kind of riding-whip used in the western United States and Spanish America, having a short handle and a braided leather lash about two feet long.
1845Amer. Rev. Feb. 127/2 The ‘quirt’, with its long heavy lash of knotted raw-hide. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxi. 240 The young hunter laid his quirt to the flanks of the mustang. 1870De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers xx. 139 While belaboring the poor brute with the heavy end of a quirk. 1888[see quirt v.2]. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 215/2 The spectators even went so far as to strike the bare backs of their favorites with quirts, or whips, to urge them on. 1910C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy v. 61 Hopalong cut him short by hitting him across the face with his quirt. 1929Amer. Speech V. 62 When the ‘rider’ is ‘saddled’ on the ‘pony’, he may hold in one hand a ‘quirk’ (‘quirt’) or ‘lasher’, a short whip, having a small lead-filled handle and rawhide lashes two feet or more long. 1934Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs 377 My quirt in my hand, my slicker on my saddle. 1955W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West vii. 218 The cowboy's quirt was ordinarily about 2 or 3 feet long, of plaited leather, though sometimes of stitched buckskin or woven horsehair. 1972K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me xiii. 101 She..flicked the thong of her quirt under the stallion's belly and was away. 1980Daily Tel. 18 July 1/3 Police in South Africa have unveiled their latest riot control weapon, which they call a quirt, a whip made of flexible plastic about three to four feet long.
▪ II. † quirt, v.1 Obs. rare.
Also 7 quurt.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. trans. To block, fill, or stop up (an opening).
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1009/1 The said earle..did leuie and build a new weere in the said aperture..stopping, filling, and quirting the same, with great trees, timber, and stones. 1602Carew Cornwall 105 b, To let..three or foure shouels full of earth fall softly downe by the inner side of the floodgate, which will quurt vp his chinkes.
2. intr. Of a river: To be dammed back.
1602Carew Cornwall 152 Under it runneth the river Lo,..thwarted by a sandy banke, which forceth the same to quurt back a great way.
▪ III. quirt, v.2 U.S.|kwɜːt|
[f. quirt n.]
trans. To strike with a quirt. Hence ˈquirting vbl. n.
1888T. Roosevelt in Century Mag. Apr. 854 A first-class rider will sit throughout it all..quirting his horse all the time... Quirt is the name of the short flexible riding-whip used throughout cowboy land. The term is a Spanish one. 1897Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 2/1 One [horse]..was ‘quirted’, ‘raked’, and nearly killed. 1910C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy vii. 76 He says you did—an' somebody quirted him. 1918W. M. Raine in Popular Mag. 20 June 23/1 Quirt him on the shoulders and rake him down the hip. 1932H. W. Bentley Dict. Spanish Terms in Eng. 131 From the noun has come the verb to quirt and the Anglicized quirting used in such a phrase as ‘He gave the animal a sound quirting’. 1973R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led. i. iv. 49 So I quirted that pony a couple of times. |