stockwhip

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noun

An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.

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Meanings

nounstockwhip (plural stockwhips)

plural stockwhips

  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
verbstockwhip (third-person singular simple present stockwhips, present participle stockwhipping, simple past and past participle stockwhipped)

present singular third person stockwhips · participle present stockwhipping · participle past stockwhipped · past stockwhipped

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From stock + whip.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

whipstock
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