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Meaning of HORSEWHIP

Pronunciation:  'hors`wip

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a whip for controlling horses
  2. [v]  whip with a horsewhip
 
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 See Also: buggy whip, flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip, whip

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Horse"whip`\, n.
    A whip for horses.
    
  2. \Horse"whip`\, v. t.
    To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.
    
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blacksnake, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, cane, cat, club, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, scourge, sjambok, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thong, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whiplash, whop
 

 

 

 

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