Whip /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Whipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whipping

1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
2. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
3. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.

   Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.

4. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.

   They would whip me with their fine wits.

5. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
6. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
7. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]
8. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.

   Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.

9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.

   In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.

10. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.

    She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.

    He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.

11. To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. (Naut.)
12. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.

    Whipping their rough surface for a trout.

1. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.

   With speed from thence he whipped.

   Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.

1. An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.

   In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun.

2. A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
3. One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. (Mach.)
4. A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. (Naut.)
5. A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
6. A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed. (Eng. Politics)
7. A whipping motion; a thrashing about; as, the whip of a tense rope or wire which has suddenly parted; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
8. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions. (Mech.)