Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
- noun One who whips; particularly, an officer who inflicts punishment by legal whipping.
- noun A flagellant.
- noun Something that surpasses or beats all; a “whopper.”
- noun One who raises coals with a whip from a ship's hold: same as
coal-whipper . - noun In spinning, a simple kind of willow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
- noun engraving One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
- noun (Spinning) A kind of simple willow.
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- noun
Agent noun ofwhip ; a person or thing thatwhips .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lent; but his voice being so extremely musical, that it rather allured the birds than terrified them, he was soon transplanted from the fields into the dog-kennel, where he was placed under the huntsman, and made what the sportsmen term whipper-in.
Joseph Andrews Vol 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed.
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The rope arrested my fall what climbers call a whipper and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I hadn't broken or punctured anything.
After the Fall, a Lingering Doubt Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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As far as Vionne could see, the three of them plus the whipper were the only people in the place.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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As far as Vionne could see, the three of them plus the whipper were the only people in the place.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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In this part of America there is a singular bird, called whipper-will, or whip-poor-will, which has obtained its name from the plaintive noise that it makes.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798
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Ahenobarbus was pouring out upon their inefficiency a torrent of wrathful malediction, that promised employment for the "whipper" for some time to come.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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The resistance of the innocent man caused the "whipper" to call in three other sturdy blacks, and, in a few minutes, the victim was fastened upon the stretcher, face downwards, his clothing removed, and the strong-armed white negro-whipper standing over him with uplifted whip.
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"Where is the dollar that you got with this note?" asked the "whipper," as he finished reading the epistle.
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Disraeli, not yet fully recognised as leader of the protectionists, was working hard for that position, and assumed the manners of it, with Beresford, a kind of whipper-in, for his right-hand man.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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