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horsewhip

[ hawrs-hwip, -wip ]

noun

  1. a whip for controlling horses.


verb (used with object)

horsewhipped, horsewhipping.
  1. to beat with a horsewhip.

horsewhip

/ ˈ³óɔ˲õËŒ·Éɪ±è /

noun

  1. a whip, usually with a long thong, used for managing horses
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to flog with such a whip
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³ó´Ç°ù²õ±ðËŒ·É³ó¾±±è±è±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³ó´Ç°ù²õ±ðw³ó¾±±èp±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of horsewhip1

1300–50; Middle English. See horse, whip
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“They also used horsewhips and pulled out fingernails,†he recalled.

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Duterte was regularly whipped by his mother, who reportedly once wore out a horsewhip from the frequent beatings, his brother said.

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Then on one spring day in April 2016, Margaret did something for the first time in her riding life: She dropped her horsewhip.

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Hughes: I just loved the scene where I horsewhipped my sister and sent her sobbing and bleeding into the night where she got into a car and drove off a cliff.

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If a man’s been horsewhipping himself for two years, it seemed to me like not even God would want to punish him anymore.

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