cart-whipn.
A whip used in driving a cart, a long heavy horse-whip.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > art of driving horse-drawn vehicle > whip
postilion whip1621
cart-whip1713
gad-whip1819
coach-whip1833
1713 London Gaz. No. 5144/10 Carters are to ride with long Cart Whips.
1823 Canning in Ann. Reg. (1824) 129/1 Driving the slaves, by means of a cart-whip.
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xii. 136 He had helped himself to a long cart-whip which stood there.
Derivatives
cart-whip v. to flog with a cart-whip.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > soundly or severely
scourge1297
bebreech1617
horsewhip1768
cart-whip1788
knout1790
stripe1843
quirt1846
kurbash1850
blacksnake1864
bullwhip1876
sjambok1881
1788 C. Dibdin Musical Tour liv. 222 They are cart-whipt and treated with much other cruelty.
1811 Edinb. Rev. 19 141 After a cart-whipping..he was carried to a sick-house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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