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stockwhip en · NOUN

Etymology

From stock + whip.

Meanings

  1. An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.
    • […] Mrs. Pansy McLash, the keeper of the Siding House, was flogging a herd of goats from her garden. The goats surged on to the railway, intent on escaping the stockwhip whistling behind, and Mrs. McLash went after them, intent on teaching them the lesson of their lives. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 80:

Forms

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stockwhips Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

whip

stockwhip en · VERB

Etymology

From stock + whip.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To use such a whip.
    • He then started to stockwhip Frencham, curling the whip six times around his body. 1964, Frederick Christian Folkard, The Remarkable Australians, page 95:

Forms

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stockwhips Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
stockwhipped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stockwhipped Tense=Past lexicographic
stockwhipping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic