Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The staff, rod, or handle to which the lash of a whip is secured. Also whip-stalk, whip-stick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
stock (rigid handle) of awhip .
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Examples
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After missing on the first three attempts over 11 days, the drilling team determined they were less than a half meter from their target when a "whipstock," a wedge intended to divert the drill at a sharp angle, became stuck, forcing them to back up 100 meters to try again, before hitting the well.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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The statement said the latest effort to stop the leak had been delayed because "whipstock" equipment, used to direct the drill, had failed.
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The statement said the latest effort to stop the leak had been delayed because "whipstock" equipment, used to direct the drill, had failed.
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The statement said the latest effort to stop the leak had been delayed because "whipstock" equipment, used to direct the drill, had failed.
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To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.
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Flinging out his left hand, Van sent a lash of his own, a lash of lightning from his outstretched finger to the whipstock.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Flinging out his left hand, Van sent a lash of his own, a lash of lightning from his outstretched finger to the whipstock.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Raising his brass-bound old whipstock he struck at the prisoner's mouth to knock out the shining prize.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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Octavius leaned to the carriage and threw the reins around the whipstock.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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The laniards of the shrouds had been cut away on both sides, and the tall and tapering mast was quivering and bending like a whipstock, from the action of the wind and the waves.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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