Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mallee . - noun Same as
whip-stock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Whip handle; whipstock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
whipstock ; thehandle of awhip .
Etymologies
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whip + stick
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Examples
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Michael, meanwhile, kept tapping his whipstick against his right thigh, letting Rob know he'dloveto work this his own special way.
Ticket To Ride 2010
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When he had done these things without difficulty, she demanded that he should peel the sandstone, and cut her a whipstick from the ice without making a splinter.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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