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Horsewhip

verb
1.
Whip with a whip intended for horses.
noun
1.
A whip for controlling horses.



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"Horsewhip" Quotes from Famous Books



... help watching him. He looked so fine on his prancing black, with the sunset glow mellowing his ruddy health, and his curious habit of constantly making the thong of his horsewhip whistle through the air or ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... its celebration: or, in any other case, to give him the satisfaction which was usual between gentlemen of honour. And should Major Pendennis be disinclined to this alternative, the Captain hinted, that he would force him to accept by the use of a horsewhip, which he should employ upon the Major's person. The precise terms of this letter we cannot give, for reasons which shall be specified presently; but it was, no doubt, couched in the Captain's finest style, and sealed elaborately ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... left, Tilliard burst in, white with agitation, and crying, "Did you see my awful faux pas—about the horsewhip? What shall I do? I must call on Elliot. Or ...
— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster
... had a right to choose a wife; but if I had known Molly was not allowed to have a husband, I should not have asked her to marry me." Mrs. Wood was more vexed about my marriage than her husband. She could not forgive me for getting married, but stirred up Mr. Wood to flog me dreadfully with the horsewhip. I thought it very hard to be whipped at my time of life for getting a husband—I told her so. She said that she would not have nigger men about the yards and premises, or allow a nigger man's clothes to be washed in the same tub where hers were washed. ...
— The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave • Mary Prince
... no reply; but began to strip with great expedition. Captain Crowe was so choked with passion that he could utter nothing but disjointed sentences. He rose from his seat, brandished his horsewhip, and, seizing his nephew by the collar, cried, "Odd's heartlikins! sirrah, I have a good mind—Devil fire your running tackle, you landlubber!— can't you steer without all this tacking hither and thither, and the Lord knows whither?—'Noint my block! I'd give thee a rope's end for thy ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett


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