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The stick or staff to which the lash of a whip is attached; the handle of a whip.
spec. The upper part of a whip; hence the whole stock or handle of a whip.
the handle of a whip, a whipstock; also figurative (see quot. 1653; with quot. 1861 cf. whip hand, n. 2).