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Whip , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whipped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Whipping.] [OE. whippen to overlay, as a cord, with other cords, probably akin to G. & D. wippen to shake, to move up and down, Sw. vippa, Dan. vippe to swing to and fro, to shake, to toss up, and L. vibrare to shake. Cf. Vibrate.]
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
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To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
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Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.
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To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
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They would whip me with their fine wits.
Shak.

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To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
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To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
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To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]
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To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
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Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
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To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
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In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
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To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
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She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
L'Estrange.

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He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
Walpole.

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(Naut.) (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. (b) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
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To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
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Whipping their rough surface for a trout.
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To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. -- To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]
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Whip , v. i. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
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With speed from thence he whipped.
Sackville.

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Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.
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Whip, n. [OE. whippe. See Whip, v. t.]
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An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod. “[A] whip's lash.” Chaucer.

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In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun.
Addison.

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A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.Beaconsfield.

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(Mach.) (a) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. (b) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
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(Naut.) (a) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. (b) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
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A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
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(Eng. Politics) (a) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed. (b) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
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A whipping motion; a thrashing about; as, the whip of a tense rope or wire which has suddenly parted; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
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(Mech.) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions.
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Whip and spur, with the utmost haste. -- Whip crane, or Whip purchase, a simple form of crane having a small drum from which the load is suspended, turned by pulling on a rope wound around larger drum on the same axle. -- Whip gin. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Whip grafting. See under Grafting. -- Whip hand, the hand with which the whip is used; hence, advantage; mastery; as, to have or get the whip hand of a person. Dryden. -- Whip ray (Zool.), the European eagle ray. See under Ray. -- Whip roll (Weaving), a roll or bar, behind the reeds in a loom, on which the warp threads rest. -- Whip scorpion (Zool.), any one of numerous species of arachnids belonging to Thelyphonus and allied genera. They somewhat resemble true scorpions, but have a long, slender bristle, or lashlike organ, at the end of the body, instead of a sting. -- Whip snake (Zool.), any one of various species of slender snakes. Specifically: (a) A bright green South American tree snake (Philodryas viridissimus) having a long and slender body. It is not venomous. Called also emerald whip snake. (b) The coachwhip snake.
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