
Meaning of HORSEWHIP
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a whip for controlling horses
- [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 |
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\Horse"whip`\, n.
A whip for horses.
\Horse"whip`\, v. t.
To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.
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| | 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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