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Definition of Coachwhip

1. Noun. Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers.

2. Noun. A whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip.

Definition of Coachwhip

1. Noun. A long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach. ¹

2. Noun. ''Masticophis flagellum'', a colubrid snake of North America. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coachwhip

coaching stock coachless coachlike coachload coachloads coachmaker coachmakers coachman coachmanship coachmen

coachroof coachroofs coachsmith coachsmiths coachspeak coachwhip (current term) coachwhip snake coachwhipping coachwhips coachwoman

coachwomen coachwork coachworks coachy coact coacted coacting coaction coactions coactivate

Literary usage of Coachwhip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"Closely related, the coachwhip Snake and the blacksnake are very similar in habits. Although the black- snake is one of the most active of serpents, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"... The following is a qualitative analysis of the urine of the coachwhip snake ... coachwhip in most respecte, consisting mainly of the urate of ammonia. ..."

3. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by Hardin E. Taliaferro (1859)
"After breathing a little from telling his coachwhip story, which always excited him, ... "Fur some time arter I were chased by that sassy coachwhip, ..."

4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"The loud cracking whip-like noise it makes (from whence the colonists give it the name of coachwhip), may be heard from a great distance.'1 1827. ..."

5. Archæology of the United States by Samuel Foster Haven (1856)
"The coachwhip Snake died at the end of three and a half days. Its viscera presented remarkable appearances. The lung contained considerable quantities of ..."

6. The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1886)
"... were requited by an untoward generation with hooting, pelting, coachwhip- ping, and horsewhipping. But, though he applauded the zeal of the sufferers, ..."

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