Concept cluster: Actions > Whip types and terms
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A sennet whip.
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(US) A long, tapering whip.
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One who wears a bucket or bucket-like object on his or her head.
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(archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
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A horsewhip with a long stiff shaft and a relatively short lash, used for driving a horse harnessed to a buggy or other small open carriage.
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Alternative form of bullwhip [A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock.]
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A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock.
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A long whip used by the driver of a cart.
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A similarly constructed leather nine-tail whip, as used in British penal colonies and certain armies.
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(now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.
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A long knotted whip with a wooden handle, formerly used as a punishment in the Congo and Portuguese Africa.
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(uncountable, film, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach.
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Alternative spelling of kurbash [A whip or strap about a yard in length.]
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(informal) A cowboy
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The lashing end of a whip.
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(UK, dialect) The bent stick used in playing this game.
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A whip intended for use on dogs.
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A two-line whip.
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(uncommon, possibly dated) A (wire) whisk.
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A whip
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(Britain, vulgar) The crotch.
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(BDSM) The act of spanking a person with a hairbrush.
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To beat with a whip made from hide.
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A scuffle hoe with a loop in its head.
adj
Containing hoops
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A whip for use on horses.
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A whip with a hooked horn handle (that can be used for opening gates), a short shaft or stock, and a long leather thong with a silk or cord lash.
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A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
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Alternative form of imbroccata [(obsolete) A hit or thrust.]
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Alternative spelling of sjambok [(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.]
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(humorous, archaic) A coachman.
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A bludgeon.
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A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
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A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
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A whip or strap about a yard in length.
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A whip made from rhinoceros hide.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Carrying a whip, scourge, or wand.
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(forestry, logging) A two-man crosscut saw, often more than ten feet in length, used to fell large trees.
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A short, thick braided whip with a round cross-section, used by the Cossacks.
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A whip used by the Cossacks
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(slang, obsolete) The gallows.
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A single-line whip.
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(slang) The paxwax (ligament of the neck in quadrupeds).
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(historical) A cheap toy whip for use by children, such as to start a spinning top.
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(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
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Synonym of chuck-farthing
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A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.
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A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
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A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.
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riding crop, horse whip
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A whip, often of leather and often multi-tailed.
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An implement for informal corporal punishment, usually consisting of about 18 inches of rope, made heavier and more brittle by dipping in hot tar, usually with a knot in the receiving end, or simulated by pleating leather shoelaces to form a single length as a thin whip.
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Alternative form of sjambok [(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.]
v
Alternative form of sjambok [(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.]
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Alternative form of shillelagh [(Ireland) A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.]
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Alternative form of shillelagh [(Ireland) A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.]
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(BDSM) A whip with a single lash.
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Alternative form of sjambok [(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.]
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(South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
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Alternative form of sjambok [(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.]
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A kind of single-tailed whip with no handle, capable of being coiled up.
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Alternative form of spilikin [(cribbage) A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in cribbage.]
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An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.
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(chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.
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sennet whip, an implement for informal corporal punishment, formerly used in the Royal Navy.
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The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
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(Australia) the piece of wood (cat) that is struck in tipcat
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Synonym of misery whip
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A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
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The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.
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(obsolete) A schoolmaster.
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A hard, twisted cord used for making whiplashes.
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The art or skill of using a whip, for example in training animals.
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Obsolete spelling of whip [A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.]
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(hunting) A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the chase.
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A whipsaw operator.
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Alternative form of whipstock [The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.]
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The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.
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A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
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(historical) An arrow carved such that it makes a high-pitched whistle when fired; historically used by nomadic peoples in the Eurasian Steppe.
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A rustic, a clod-hopper.

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