horsewhip

See also: horse whip

English

Etymology

horse +‎ whip

Noun

horsewhip (plural horsewhips)

1. A whip for use on horses.

Hypernyms

• whip

Translations

whip used on horses

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 马鞭 (zh) (mǎbiān), 马鞭 (zh) (mǎbiān)

• Danish: ridepisk c
• Dutch: rijzweep (nl) f, karwats (nl) f
• Finnish: ratsupiiska
• French: cravache (fr) f
• Hungarian: lovaglóostor
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ridepisk m

  Nynorsk: ridepisk m

• Polish: szpicruta f
• Russian: хлыст (ru) m (xlyst)
• Spanish: fusta (es) f

Verb

horsewhip (third-person singular simple present horsewhips, present participle horsewhipping, simple past and past participle horsewhipped)

1. (transitive) To flog or lash with a horsewhip.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 22:

     "Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city. Only think, sir, of horsewhipping a publisher!" and Mr. Lintot grew pale with excess of horror.

   • 1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister:

     He had told his wife that he would ask Fletcher to give up the borough, and that he would make that request with a horsewhip in his hand […] But there were difficulties. A man is not horsewhipped simply because you wish to horsewhip him.