Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A worsted fabric with a distinct diagonal rib.
- noun A strong twisted or braided cord sometimes used in making whiplashes.
- noun Catgut.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong twisted hempen cord, so called because lashes or snappers of whips are made from it.
- noun A cord or string of catgut.
- noun A seaweed, Chorda filum, having a very long, slender, whip-like frond. See
Chorda , 2. - noun A weave showing a corded effect or pattern running lengthwise of the fabric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard,
twisted cord used for makingwhiplashes . - noun A type of
catgut . - noun A strong
worsted fabric , with adiagonal rib .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips
- noun a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib
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Examples
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It is no wonder that Ritson, in the historical essay prefixed to his collection of _Scottish Songs_, should speak of some of these ballads with a zest as if he would have sacrificed half his library to untie the said "whipcord" packet.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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He wore blue jerseys, and blue shirts which her mother called Aertex, and tweed ties and whipcord trousers.
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The Enforcement detective had no Psy abilities, and unlike the butcher sitting across from her, his body was whipcord lean.
Archive 2009-11-01 Nalini Singh 2009
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The Enforcement detective had no Psy abilities, and unlike the butcher sitting across from her, his body was whipcord lean.
Excerpt - Bonds of Justice Nalini Singh 2009
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The wealthy financier was well known in upper crust social circles, and generally thought something of a fop, but his steely gaze and his whipcord muscles flexing like steel bands beneath the dark fabric of his suit would brook no delay.
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The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.
Sole Music 2010
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His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
Sole Music 2010
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The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained.
Sole Music 2010
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(Somehow one always watches that tiny head, and its yoke of yellow around the neck, all lifted marginally above the water's surface, and miss the whipcord of black-banded green that lashes behind.)
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People keep telling me I'm a large, hairy, bearlike person, but deep inside I'm whipcord-thin Eurotrash in a pastel linen jacket and designer shades.
The Green Leopard and Other Plagues Walter Jon Williams 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word whipcord
"He wore a canvas jacket, whipcord breeches, and a bowler hat."
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater, p 75 of the New York Review of Books hardcover
July 17, 2013