whisk'd

English

Verb

whisk'd

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of whisk
   • 1739, The Persian and Turkish Tales, Compleat. Translated Formerly from Those Languages into French, by M. Petis de la Croix, […]: And Now into English from That Translation, by the Late Learned Dr. King, and Several Other Hands. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: […] Richard Ware, […], page 403:

     The Inventor of this Fire-work, ſitting himſelf down on the End of one of theſe Rockets, order’d it to be fir’d, and was whiſk’d up into the Air higher than any four Steeples in the World could reach, were they ſet one upon another.

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:

     Not that she was incommoded by many fears of Sir Thomas’s disapprobation when the present state of his house should be known, for her judgment had been so blinded that except by the instinctive caution with which she had whisk’d away Mr. Rushworth’s pink satin cloak as her brother-in-law entered, she could hardly be said to shew any sign of alarm; but she was vexed by the manner of his return.

   • 1893, Robert Bruce, Echoes from Coondambo, Adelaide: Hutchison, Craker, & Smith, […], page 101:

     But, just as the storm wash’d their cuticles clean, / It whisk’d off the bardoo, for none can be seen!