Crossword-Solution: WHIP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | v. t. | To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to. |
| Whip | v. t. | To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. |
| Whip | v. t. | To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like. |
| Whip | v. t. | To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. |
| 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. |
| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | v. t. | To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like. |
| Whip | v. t. | To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. |
| Whip | v. t. | To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. |
| Whip | v. t. | To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. |
| Whip | v. i. | To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner. |
| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | v. t. | A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip. |
| Whip | v. t. | One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. |
| Whip | v. t. | The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft. |
| Whip | v. t. | A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. |
| Whip | v. t. | The long pennant. See Pennant (a) |
| Whip | v. t. | A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in. |
| Whip | 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. |
| Whip | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WHIP | anagram | PIHW |
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Sentences with WHIP (5)
The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.” They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn.
Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
One of the ladies, a short woman dressed in white, was simply screaming; the other, a dark, slender figure, slashed at the man who gripped her arm with a whip she held in her disengaged hand.
Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination,--the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
Quotes with WHIP (3)
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.
And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)
Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I'd go away and try to forget you, but I couldn't and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much I believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn't died when he did. I loved you but I couldn't let you know it. You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take thei…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 132 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).