Whip

hwip, n. that which whips: a lash with a handle for punishing or driving: a driver, coachman: one who enforces the attendance of a political party: a whipper-in, the person who manages the hounds: a call made on members of parliament to be in their places against important divisions: a simple form of hoisting apparatus, a small tackle consisting of a single rope and block.— v.t. to strike with a lash: to drive or punish with lashes: to lash with sarcasm: ( coll. ) to beat, outdo: to beat into a froth, as eggs, cream, .: to keep together, as a party: to fish with fly: to overlay, as one cord with another, to enwrap, lay regularly on: to sew lightly: to overcast, as a seam: to move quickly, snatch (with up , away , out ).— v.i. to move nimbly: to make a cast in fishing with fly:— pr.p. whip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. whipped, whipt.— ns. Whip′-and-der′ry , a hoisting apparatus—same as whip above; Whip′cat , a tailor; Whip′cord , cord for making whips.— adj. Whip′cordy , tough like whipcord.— v.t. Whip′-graft , to graft by fitting a tongue cut on the scion to a slit cut slopingly in the stock.— ns. Whip′-hand , the hand that holds the whip: advantage over; Whip′-hand′le , the handle or stock of a whip: an advantage; Whip′jack , a poor whining seaman who never was at sea; Whip′lash , the lash of a whip; Whip′per , one who whips: an officer who inflicts the penalty of whipping; Whip′per-in , one who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in to the line of chase: one who enforces the discipline of a party; Whip′per-snap′per , a pretentious but insignificant person; Whip′ping , act of whipping: punishment with the whip or lash: a defeat: a binding of twine, as at the end of a rope: in bookbinding, the sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread—also Whip′-stitch′ing ; Whip′ping-boy , a boy formerly educated along with a prince and bearing his punishments for him; Whip′ping-cheer ( Shak. ), chastisement; Whip′ping-post , a post to which offenders are tied to be whipped: the punishment itself; Whip′-saw , a saw usually set in a frame, for dividing timber lengthwise, and commonly worked by two persons.— v.t. to cut with a whip-saw: to have the advantage of a person at every point.— ns. Whip′-snake , a name given in North America to various species of the genus Mast i cop his (esp. M. flagelliform is , the coach-whip snake, four to five feet long, slender, and harmle ), as also to species of Philodryas , of Pa er it a , .; Whip′-sock′et , a socket to hold the butt of a whip; Whip′-staff , the handle of a whip; Whip′ster ( Shak. ), same as Whipper-snapper ; Whip′-stitch , a kind of half-ploughing— raftering : a hasty composition: a tailor; Whip′-stock , the rod or handle of a whip.— adjs. Whip′-tail , -tailed , having a long, slender tail.— Whip and spur , with great haste; Whip the cat , to practise small economies: to work by the day as a dre maker going from house to house. [M. E. whippen ; prob. a form of wippen —Old Dut. wippen , to shake, conn. with Old High Ger. wipph , swinging motion (Ger. weifen , to move), and akin to L. vibrāre , to tremble.]