1848 Mississippi Creole (Canton, Mississippi) 13 Oct. He will send forth a mandate for..putting of patriarchal thumb screws, bull whips and chains, and iron fetters on the hands and feet of twenty millions of slaves.

1889 H. O'Reilly & J. Y. Nelson Fifty Years on Trail xxx. 373 The whole caravan had to wait until I went along with a bull-whip and frisked them [sc. horses] up.

1954 Boys' Life Sept. 22 ‘Whoa!’ barked Jeffry Burnett, cracking his thirty-foot bullwhip.

2000 W. Ihimaera Uncle's Story (2005) xiii. 202 From far up the river valley came the thunder of hooves. The high whinnying of the wild mustangs. The crack of the bullwhips as the wranglers chased the herd down.

1876 in Recent Election Louisiana: Testimony Select Comm. (1877) 157 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (44th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 34 Pt. 1) IV They told them if they voted the democratic ticket they would be put back into slavery and followed up by hounds, or that they would be castrated and bull-whipped.

1929 Fruitland (Idaho) Banner 12 Sept. Uncle Sylus bull-whipped the oxen into a dead-run.

1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy i. 8 He was suspected of bullwhipping a fellow to death.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Sept. a4/1 A harsh and brazen government, whose troops bullwhip women for not wearing veils and summarily execute political enemies.