horsewhip
See also: horse whip
English
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[edit]horsewhip (plural horsewhips)
- A whip for use on horses.
- 1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 14:
- Hearing the rout,
Dame Gill came out,
With a horse whip from the door,
She laid it on Jack,
And poor Jill's back,
Until they both did roar.
- 1876, Anthony Trollope, “The Silverbridge Election”, in The Prime Minister. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 234:
- 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. It was too late now to say anything of the borough, but it might not be too late for the horsewhip. He had a great desire to make good that threat as far as the horsewhip was concerned,—having an idea that he would thus lower Fletcher in his wife’s eyes.
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[edit]whip used on horses
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Verb
[edit]horsewhip (third-person singular simple present horsewhips, present participle horsewhipping, simple past and past participle horsewhipped)
- (transitive) To flog or lash (someone or something) with a horsewhip.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:
- [T]heir children were horsewhipped by the grieve when found trespassing; […]
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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 Silverbridge Election”, in The Prime Minister. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 235:
- Of course he would be justified in horsewhipping him. But there were difficulties. A man is not horsewhipped simply because you wish to horsewhip him.
- 1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 277:
- [H]e horsewhipped Sam Brewer, the well-known Curzon Street moneylender, on Newmarket Heath. He nearly killed the man.
- 2004 June 12, Vikram Dodd, “Coven's footnote to Clark diaries”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 September 2014:
- Ten years ago, with the secret out, they and South African judge James Harkess arrived back in London, with the husband/father saying he wanted to have Mr Clark horsewhipped.