单词 | whipper |
释义 | whippern. One who or that which whips, in various senses. 1. a. One who beats or chastises with (or as with) a whip; a scourger, flogger; spec. an official who inflicts whipping as a legal punishment. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Whypper who whyppeth beggers and vacaboundes, or others, plagiarius. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. N Ambitiously, affecting the Title of the Vntrussers, or Whippers of the Age. View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. l. sig. R2 It is the basest Office Man can fall into, to make his tongue the Whipper of the Worthy man. 1697 J. Partridge (title) Flagitiosus Mercurius flagellatus; or the Whipper whipp'd. 1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine I. xvi. 212 At last, marrying some honest gentleman,..she degenerates into a dangler of keys and whipper of children. 1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana ix. 96 The brutal hand of the mercenary whipper. 1886 8th Rep. Prison Comm. Scot. 6 The case against the boy was accordingly delayed,..because a whipper could not be found. b. = flagellant n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > by beating > person flagellant1570 flagelliferan1607 whipstock1640 whippera1656 flagellator1691 flagellist1833 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating > person performing scourger1537 flagellant1570 flagelliferan1607 whipstock1640 whippera1656 flagellator1691 flagellist1833 a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 240 A brood of mad hereticks,..whom they called Flagellantes, the whippers, which went about..lashing themselves to blood. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 213 The whippers..ran about in promiscuous multitudes. c. = whipper-in n. 1, 2 ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant on hounds fewtererc1400 bernera1425 hound's-swainc1475 brackener1490 piqueur1580 dog boy1612 vauterer1679 whipper-in1739 whipper1826 whip1848 velterer1911 1826 Sporting Mag. New Ser. 17 366 John Roberts the huntsman, and Will Veale the whipper. 1884 Gladstone in Western Daily Press 12 July 8/1 The authority, for every loyal Liberal, of the whipper. d. A kind of fishing-rod: see quot. 1688, and cf. whip v. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod pole1577 telescope pole1675 fly-rod1684 dopper1688 whipper1688 bag-rod1787 telescope rod1820 salmon rod1841 greenheart1869 spinning-rod1870 loop-rod1885 roach pole1892 trunk-rod1893 sea-rod1902 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 103/1 A Whipper, or Whipping Rod is a slender top Rod, that is weak in the middle and top heavy, but all slender and fine. 2. A person or thing that surpasses others. (Cf. whip v. 12) ? Obsolete exc. dialect applied to a big active person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > one who or that which whipperc1520 outvier1652 c1520 Boke of Mayd Emlyn 356 in Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) IV. 94 Bycause he coude clepe her, She called hym a whypper. ?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. C.iv Thys relyke here is a whipper..here is a slypper Of one of the seuen slepers. 3. A workman who hoists coal with a ‘whip’: = coal-whipper n. (Cf. whip v. 5.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload > coal staithman?1677 off-putter1788 caster1793 coal-whipper1795 coal lumper1834 whipper1836 coaler1858 coal handler1871 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 299 At the appearance of the coal-whippers, and ballast-heavers. 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 87/1 The four whippers now run up a sort of step-ladder. 1887 R. Newman in Charity Org. Rev. July 275 Coal-whipping..has now all but ceased; but a similar class of men..are probably as numerous as were the whippers of twenty years ago. 4. One who runs the coloured thread along the edge of a blanket. (Cf. whip v. 18.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > sewing in other ways > one who hemmer1483 baster1854 machinist1879 sewing machinist?1881 whipper?1881 machiner1888 tucker1905 Blake-sewer1921 overlocker1921 bar tacker1924 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 66 Blanket Manufacture;..Tucker. Whipper. Binder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1520 |
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