whip 
2. To overlay, as a cord, rope, etc., with a cord, 
twine, or thread going roiind and round it; in- 
wrap; seize: serve with twine, tliread, or the 
like wound closely and tightly round and round : 
generally with about, around, over, etc. 
Whipjxd over either with gold thread, silver, or silk. 
Stubbes. (Imp. Diet.) 
The same stringes, beeing by the Archers themselves 
with ftne threed well whipt, did also verie seldom breake. 
Sir J. Smyth, Discourses on Weapons, etc , quoted in 
[Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 54. 
Its string is flmily whipped about with small gut. 
Moxon, Mechanical Exercises. 
3. To lay regularly on ; serve in regular cir- 
cles round and round. 
Whip your silk twice or thrice about the root-end of the 
feather, hook, and towght. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 245. 
4. To sew with an over and over stitch, as two 
pieces of cloth whose edges are laid or stitched 
together; overcast: as, to wAy) a seam. — 5. To 
gather by a kind of combination running and 
overhand stitch : as, to whip a ruflle. 
In h^i-ichipt muslin needles useless lie. 
And shuttle-cocks across the counter fly. 
Gay, Trivia, ii. 389. 
6. Naut., to hoist or purchase by means of a 
rope passed through a single pulley. — 7. To 
strike with a whip or lash, or with anything 
tough and flexible ; lash; use a whip upon: as, 
to whip a horse. 
At night, the lights put out and company removed, they 
whipped themselves in their Chappell on Mount Calvai-y. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 132. 
It blew so violently before they recovered the House 
that the Boughs of the Trees whipt them sufficiently be- 
fore they got thither ; and it rained as hard as before. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. iii. 69. 
8. To punish with a whip, scourge, birch, or the 
like ; iiog : as, to xchip a vagrant ; to ivhip a per- 
verse boy. 
Fough I body of Jove ! I'll have the slave whipt one of 
these days. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. 
A countiy scholler in England should be whipped for 
speaking the like. Coryat, Crudities, I. 20. 
I was never carted but in harvest ; never whipt but at 
school. Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, i. 3. 
9. To outdo; overcome; beat: a,a, to whi^) crea- 
tion. [CoUoq.] 
A man without a particle of Greek whipped (to speak 
Kentuckic^) whole crowds of sleeping drones who had 
more than they could turn to any good account. 
De Quincey, Herodotus. 
10. To drive with lashes. 
Consideration, like an angel, came, 
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 1. 29. 
This said, the scourge his forward horses drave 
Through ev'ry order; and, with him, all whipp'd their 
chariots on. 
All threat'ningly, out-thund'ring shouts as earth were 
overthrown. Cftapman, Iliad, xv. 319. 
11. To lash, in a figurative sense; treat with 
cutting severity, as with sarcasm or abuse. 
Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men? 
Shak.,T. of A., v. 1. 40. 
I look'd and read, and saw how finely Wit 
Had whipp'd itself ; and then grew friends with it. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 62. 
12. To cause to spin or rotate by lashing with 
a whip or scourge-stick : said of a top. 
Since I plucked geese, played truant and whipped top. 
Shak., M. W. of W., v. 1. 27. 
He was whipt like a top. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, v. 4. 
13. To thrash; beat out, as grain by striking: 
as, to whip wheat. Imp. Diet. — 14. To beat 
into a froth, as eggs, cream, etc., witli a whisk, 
fork, spoon, or other implement. 
To make Clouted cream and whipt Sillabubs? 
Shadwelt, The Scowrers. 
15. To fish upon with a fly or other bait; draw 
a fly or other bait along the surface of: as, to 
whip a stream. 
He shot with the pistol, he fenced, he whipped the 
trout-stream, . . . but somehow evei7thing went amiss 
with him. Lever, Davenport Dunn, xxiii. 
16. To bring or keep together as a party whip 
does : as, to whip a party into lino. See whip, 
«.. 3 (Ij). 
Lord Essex was there, . . . u'hii)ping up for a dinner- 
party, cursing and swearing at all his friends for being out 
of town. Macaulay, in Trevelyan, I. v. 
The only bond of cohesion is the caucus, which occa- 
sionally whips a party together for cooperative action 
against the time for casting its vote upon some critical 
question. W. Wilson, Cong. Gov., ii. 
To Whip in, to keep from scattering, as hounds in a hunt ; 
hence, to bring or keep (the members of a party) together, as 
in a legislative assembly.— To whip Off, to drive (hounds) 
off a scent. 
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The difficult nature of the covert, and the fact that they 
were running in view, prevented hounds being whipjjed off 
at the outset. T/ic Field, April 4, 1885. (Encye. Diet.) 
To Whip the cat. (a) To practise the most pinching par- 
simony. Forby. [Prov. Eng.] (&) To go from house to 
house to work, as a tailor or other workman. Compare 
whip-cat. [Scotch and prov. Eng. and U. S.] 
Mr. Hart . . . made shoes, a trade he prosecuted in an 
itinerating manner from house to house, ivhipping the cat, 
as it was termed. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 3. 
(ct) To get tipsy. HaUiweU.— To Whip the devll around 
the stamp. See devil. 
■whip (hwip), 11. [< ME. whippe, quippe = MD. 
wippe, a whip, D. wip, a swipe, strappado, mo- 
ment: see whip, d.] 1 . An instrument for flagel- 
lation, whether in driving animals or in pun- 
ishing human beings ; a scourge. In its typical 
form it is composed of a lash of some kind fastened upon 
a handle more or less rigid ; the common form of horse- 
whip has little or no lash, being a long, tapering, and very 
pliant switch-like rod of wood, whalel>one, or other ma- 
terial, usually wound or braided over with thread. 
And alle the folk of the Contree ryden comounly with 
outen Spores ; but thei beren alle weys a lytille Whippe in 
hire Hondes, for to chacen with hire Hors. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 249. 
The dwarf . . . 
Struck at him with his whip, and cut his cheek. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
2. One who handles a whip, as in driving a 
coach or carriage ; a driver : as, an expert 
whip. 
What the devil do you do with a wig, Thomas?— none 
of the London whips of any degree of ton wear wigs now. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 1. 
That is the famous coaching baronet, than whom no 
better whip has ever been seen upon the road. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 50. 
3. A whipper-in. Specifically— (a) In hwvting, the 
person who manages the hounds. 
After these the body of the pack —the parson of the 
parish, and a hard-riding comet at home on leave ; then 
the huntsman, the first whip, nearly a quorum of magis- 
trates, etc. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xv. 
(6) In English parliamentary usage, a member who per- 
forms certain non-offlcial but important duties in looking 
after the interests of his party, especially the securing of 
the attendance of as many members as possible at impor- 
tant divisions: as, the Liberal whip; the Conservative 
whip. See the quotation. 
The whip's duties are (1) to inform every member be- 
longing to the party when an important division may be 
expected, and, if he sees the member in or about the 
House, to keep him there until the division is called ; (2) 
to direct the members of his own party how to vote ; (3) 
to obtain pairs for them if they cannot be present to vote ; 
(4) to "tell," i. e., count the members in every party di- 
vision; (5) to "keep touch" of opinion within the party, 
and convey to the leader a faithful impression of that 
opinion, from which the latter can judge how far he may 
count on the support of his whole party in any course he 
proposes to take. 
J. Bryce, American Commonwealth, I. 199. 
4. A call made upon the members of a party to 
be in their places at a certain time : as, both 
parties have issued a rigorous irhiit in view of 
the expected division. [Eng.] — 5. A contri- 
vance for hoisting, consisting of a rope and pul- 
ley and usually a snatch-block, and worked by 
one or more horses which in hoisting walkaway 
from the thing hoisted. In mining usually called 
whip-and-dcrrij. See cut under cahle-Iaid. — 6. 
One of the radii or arms of a windmill, to which 
the sails are attached ; also, the length of the 
arm reckoned from the shaft. 
The arm, or whip, of one of the sails. 
Ranlcine, Steam Engine, § 188. 
7. In angling, theleaderof ananglcr'seast with 
its flies attached. The fly at the end is the drag-fly, 
tail-fly, or stretcher; those above are the drop-flies, drop- 
pers, or bobljers. More fully called a whip o/jlies. 
8. A vibrating spring used as an electric cir- 
cuit-closer for testing capacity. The spring is per- 
manently connected to one plate of the condenser or ca- 
ble, and vibrates between two studs, contact with one of 
which closes a battery circuit, and with the other a gal- 
vanometer circuit. The condenser is thus in rapid suc- 
cession charged from the battery and discharged through 
the galvanometer. The indications of the latter are thus 
proportional to the rate of vibration and the capacity of 
the condenser. 
9. A slender rod or flexible pole used instead 
of stakes to mark the bounds of oyster-beds. — 
10. The common black swift, Cypsclus apus. 
[Prov. Eng.] — 11. A preparation of cream, 
eggs, etc., beaten to a froth. 
There were "whips" and "floating-islands" iind jellies 
to compound. The Century, XXXVII. 841. 
Crack-the-whip. Same as snap-the-whip. — Slx-stringed 
whip, or the whip 'with six strings, the Six Articles. 
See articic— Snap-the-whip, a game played in running 
or skating. A number of persons join hands and move 
rapidly forward in line ; those at one end stop suddenly 
and swing the rest sharply around ; the contest is to see 
wliether any of the outer part of the line can thus be 
thrown down or made to break their hold. Also called 
crack-the-u-hip. — To drink or lick on (upon) the whipt, 
to have a taste of the whip ; get a thrashing. 
whlphandle 
In fayth and for youre long taryng 
Ye shal lik on th£ whyp. 
Towneley Mysteries, p. 30. 
Comes naked neede? and chance to do amisse? 
He shal be sure, to drinke vpon the whippe. 
Gascoiyne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber, p. 68). 
Whip and spur, making use of both whip and spur in 
riding ; hence, with the utmost haste. 
Came whip and spur, and dash'd through thick and thin. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 197. 
whip (hwip), adv. [An elliptical use of whip, 
V. Cf. LG. wips! quickly, = Sw. Dan. vips! 
pop! quick!] With a sudd en change; at once; 
quick. 
You are no sooner chose in but whip ! you are as proud 
as the devih Mrs. CenUivre, Gotham Election, L 4, 
When I came, whip was the key turned upon the girls. 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, VIII. 267. (_Davies.) 
whip-and-derry (hwip'and-der'i), n. The sim- 
plest form of machinery, with the exception of 
the windlass, for hoisting, it consists of a rope 
passing over a pulley, and is worked hy a horse or horses. 
It is rarely used in mining, except in very shallow mines. 
Sometimes called simply whip, and sometimes whipmy- 
derry. 
whipcant (hwip'kan), n. [< whi}), v., + obj. 
c«k2.] a hard drinker. 
He would prove an especial good fellow, and singular 
whip-can. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 8. (Daviet.) 
whipcat (hwip'kat), n. and a. [< whip, v., + 
obj. cat.] I. n. A tailor or other workman 
who "whips the cat." See to whip the cat (6), 
under whip. [Colloq.] 
A tailor who "whipped the cat" (or went out to work 
at his customers' houses) would occupy a day, at easy 
labour, at a cost of Is. 6d. (or less) in money, and the 
whipcat's meals . . . included. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, n. 414. 
Il.t a. Drunken. 
With xehip-cat bowling they kept a myrry carousing. 
Stanihurst, jEneid, iii. 
whip-cord (hwip'kord), H. 1. A strong twisted 
hempen cord, so called because lashes or snap- 
pers of whips are made from it. 
Let's step into this shop, and buy a pennyworth of 
whip-cord ... to spin my top. 
Kinysley, "Westward Ho, iii. 
2. A cord or string of catgut. 
In order to produce a cord — known aswAipcord — from 
these intestines, they are sewn together by means of the 
fllandre before mentioned, the joints being cut aslant to 
make them smoother and stronger. 
Spons' Encyc. Manuf., I. 609. 
3. A seawsed, Chorda fihnn, having a very 
long, slender, whip-like frond. See Chorda, 2. 
— Whip-cord couching, embroidery in which a heavy 
whip-cord is laid upon the material and is covered by the 
silk couching, which is afterward sewed closely down 
upon the background on each side of the whip-cord, so as 
to leave a decided ridge.— WMp-COrd willow. See 
willow. 
whip-COrdy (hwip'k6r''di), a. [< whip-cord 
+ -(/!.] Like whip-cord; sinewy; muscular. 
[Rare.] 
The bishop [of Exeter was] wonderfully hale and whip- 
cordy. Bp. WUber/orce, in Life, II. 33a (Eneyc. Diet.) 
whip-crane (hwip'kran), n. A simple and 
rapid-working form of crane, used in unload- 
ing vessels. E. H. Knight. 
whip-crop (hwip'krop), n. A name given to 
the whitebeam(P)/;v/,s Aria),to the wayfaring- 
tree (Viburnum Lantana). and to the guelder- 
rose ( r. Opulus), from the use of their stems 
for whip-stocks. Britten and Holland. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
whip-fish (hwip'fish), n. A cheetodont fish, 
Hcnioehua macrolepidotus, having one of the 
spines of the dorsal fin produced into a long 
filament like a whip-lash. 
whip-gin (hwip'jin), 71. A simple tackle-block 
with a hoisting-rope running over it: same as 
giu-blocl: 
■whip-graft (hwip'graft), «. t. To graft by cut- 
ting the seion and stock in a sloping direction, 
so as to fit each other, and by inserting a 
tongue on the scion into a slit in the stock. 
whip-grass (hwip'gras), n. An American spe- 
cies of nut-grass, Sclcria triglovierata. 
whip-hand (hwip'hand), n. 1. The hand that 
holds the whip in riding or driving — that is, 
the right hand. 
Mr. TuUiver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, 
would never let anybody get bold of his whip-hand. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 5. 
2. An advantage, or advantageous position. 
The archangel . . . has the whip-hand of her. Dryden. 
Now, what say you, Mr. Flameftre? I shall have the 
whiphand of you presently. Vanbrugh, -Esop, v. 1. 
Whiphandle (hwip'han'dl), n. 1. The handle 
of a whip. See u-hip-hand, 2, and compare whip- 
row. — 2t. See the quotation. 
