Meanings
nounhunting-crop (plural hunting-crops)
plural hunting-crops · alternative hunting crop
- A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.
1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 1731 more example
"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19
Translations
Irish fuip fiaigh
- fuip fiaigha hunting whip
Russian охо́тничий хлы́ст
- охо́тничий хлы́ст (oxótničij xlýst)a hunting whip
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