Whip

hwip. v. [whipped (hwipt), -ping.] To strike with a lash, cord, rod, or anything lithe to lash, beat; to drive with lashes; to punish with the whip, flog; to lash (with sarcasm, abuse, etc.); to strike, thrash, beat out (grain) by striking; to beat (cream, etc.) into froth; to sew lightly, form into gathers by overcasting a rolled edge and drawing up the thread; to overlay (a cord, rope, etc.) with other cords; to wrap, inwrap; to take or move by a sudden motion, jerk, snatch. {Naut.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip; to secure the end of from untwisting by overcasting with yarn. — v. To move nimbly, start suddenly and do anything. — n. An instrument (as a thing or lash attached to a handle) for driving horses or other animals, or for correction; a coachman, or driver of a carriage. {Mach.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. {Naut.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. {Eng. politics.) A member of Parliament who acts as executive secretary for his political party, in effecting the attendance of its members when their votes are needed; a whipper-in. [ME. whippe, quippe, a scourge, D. wippen, to whip, hasten, OD. wippe, a scourge, LG. wippen, Dan. vippe, to see-saw, Sw. vippa, to wag, jerk, — scourge, vips! quick prob. vibrate, quip.] To whip in. To drive in or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hunt; to collect in and keep from scattering, as members of a legislative body, of a party, etc. — Whip/graft, v. To graft by cutting the cion and stock in a sloping direction, so as to each other, and by inserting a tongue on the cion into a in the stock. — Whip'per, n. One who whips esp. officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping; one who raises coal with a tackle from a ship's hold. — Whip's aw, n. A saw usually set in a frame, for dividing timber lengthwise, and commonly worked by 2 persons.— Whip's ter, n. A nimble little fellow. —Whip'-cord, n. A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making lash- — — es. lash, n. The lash of a whip. staff, n. pL -staffs. {Naut.) A bar by which the rudder is — turned a tiller. stock, n. The rod or staff to which the lash of a whip fastened; sometimes, the whole whip. — Whip'per-in', n. A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if nece ary, to the line of chase; one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance of the members on all nece ary occasions. — -snap'per, n. A diminutive, insignificant person.— Whip 'ping-post, n. A post to which offenders are tied to be whipped. — Whip'pletree, hwip'pl-tre, n. The bar to which the traces or tugs of a harne are fastened; whifftetree; swingletree. [E. Whipple, freq. of whip, to swing quickly, and tree, piece of wood.J Whip'-poorwill, hwipr poor-wil, n. An Amer. nocturnal insectivorous bird of the goatsucker family, allied to the nighthawk, so Whip-poor-will. called from its note.