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/wˈɪpɪŋ/ /hwˈɪpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Whipping n. A & n. from Whip, v.

Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.

verb

Whip v. t. (past & past part. whipped; pres. part. whipping)

1.

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

2.

To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.

3.

To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. "Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school."

4.

To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to. "They would whip me with their fine wits."

5.

To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.

6.

To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

7.

To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. (Slang, U. S.)

8.

To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; often with about, around, or over. "Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut."

9.

To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle. "In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie."

10.

To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; with into, out, up, off, and the like. "She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm." "He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees."

11.

(Naut.)

(a)

To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

(b)

To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

12.

To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. "Whipping their rough surface for a trout."

To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like.

To whip the cat.

(a)

To practice extreme parsimony. (Prov. Eng.)

(b)

To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. (Prov. & U. S.)

Whip v. i. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner. "With speed from thence he whipped." "Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground."

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Etymology of 'Whipping'

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"Whipping" Quotes from Famous Books

... far as he could foresee it then, Harry went scooting off into the night on his machine. As he rode, with the wind whipping into his face and eyes, and the incessant roar of the engine in his ears, he knew he was starting what was likely to prove a wild-goose chase. Even if he caught Graves, he didn't know what he could do, except that he meant to get back ...

— The Boy Scout Aviators • George Durston

... ruined; and be very thankful for whatever falls short of all this. In my small way of philosophy, I have ever taken this lesson to heart; and I never come home but I expect to have to bear with the anger of my masters, their scoldings, insults, kicks, blows, and horse-whipping. And I always thank my destiny for whatever I do ...

— The Impostures of Scapin • Moliere

... are blue and bright, large and wide open—such as can look you full in the face, yet without boldness or impertinence. One would naturally suppose that a boy who was in the weekly habit of breaking away from apron-string control, and getting a whipping for it, ought to have long, narrow, half-shut eyes, of some uncertain color, which, though they can stare boldly enough at your boots, buttons, or breastpin, can never look you full in the face, like those ...

— Burl • Morrison Heady

... CAT WHIPPING, or WHIPPING THE CAT. A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat. The bet being made, a rope is fixed round the waist of the party to ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... believed that to gain them to the faith was to snatch them from perdition. But when they or their brothers proved obdurate, different means were used. Threats of hell were varied by threats of a whipping, which, according to Williams, were often put into execution. Parents were rigorously severed from their families; though one Lalande, who had been sent to watch the elder prisoners, reported that they would persist ...

— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman

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