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Definition of Horsewhip
1. Noun. A whip for controlling horses.
2. Verb. Whip with a whip intended for horses. "They want to horsewhip the prisoners "
Derivative terms: Horsewhipping
Definition of Horsewhip
1. n. A whip for horses.
2. v. t. To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.
Definition of Horsewhip
1. Noun. A whip used on horses. ¹
2. Verb. To flog or lash somebody savagely with a horsewhip. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horsewhip
1. [v -WHIPPED, -WHIPPING, -WHIPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsewhip
Literary usage of Horsewhip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"... to use a horsewhip—" Cutty Sark "— Paisley and "Lang Willie"—On the Queen's
Highway—Meeting " Curly "—Advent at Kilmarnock—Pike disappears and leaves me ..."
2. The Only Approved Guide Through All the Stages of a Quarrel: Containing the by Joseph Hamilton (1829)
"DISUSE OF THE horsewhip. Horse-whipping and posting were amongst the customs
which prevailed in Ireland from _ the good old times, until the publication of ..."
3. The Life and Death of Llewellynn Jewitt: With Framentary Memoirs of Some of by William Henry Goss (1889)
"A horsewhip INSTEAD OF A CROOK.—AN IRISH BOY'S "DRAME."—THE IRISHMAN, THE
MAGISTRATE, AND SAINT PETER. J|OW return we to the gentle, gifted, ..."
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