WHIP

Definitions for the word, whip

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

(v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.

(v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.

(v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.

(v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.

(v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)

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

(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

(v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.

(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.

(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.

(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.