Crossword clues for whipping
whipping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whip \Whip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whipping.] [OE. whippen to overlay, as a cord, with other cords, probably akin to G. & D. wippen to shake, to move up and down, Sw. vippa, Dan. vippe to swing to and fro, to shake, to toss up, and L. vibrare to shake. Cf. Vibrate.]
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.
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
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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.
Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.
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To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
They would whip me with their fine wits.
--Shak. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]
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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.
Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
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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.
In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
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To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
--L'Estrange.He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
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(Naut.)
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
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To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. Whipping their rough surface for a trout. --Emerson. To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. To whip the cat.
To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.]
--Forby.To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]
Whipping \Whip"ping\, a & n. from Whip, v.
Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "a beating with a whip," verbal noun from whip (v.). As "a defeat," 1835, American English colloquial. Also as a past participle adjective; hence whipping post (c.1600); whipping boy (1640s); whipping block (1877).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The punishment of being whipped. 2 (context countable English) A heavy defeat; a thrashing. 3 (context uncountable English) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc. 4 (context countable English) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something. 5 (context nautical whipping English) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501). vb. (present participle of whip English)
WordNet
See whip
n. an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline [syn: party whip]
a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
(golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
adj. smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: snappy]
n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation]
a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing]
a stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: whipstitch, whipstitching]
the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating]
v. beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" [syn: worst, pip, mop up, rack up]
thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash; "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face" [syn: lash]
whip with or as if with a wire whisk; "whisk the eggs" [syn: whisk]
subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" [syn: blister, scald]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "whipping".
The commonest is known as the bastinado, which consists of removing the shoes of the victim and whipping the soles of his feet with a bamboo stick.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.
The air was a powerful physical presence, battering at her torso and face, whipping her hair, snatching the breath from her lungs.
He groped a little farther along the batture, and nearly put his hand on a four-foot snake that went whipping from beneath a downed tree.
Isabella, her dark hair whipping around her, whirled and swayed her body sensuously as she dance toward Burr, displaying every seductive curve of her body before his smiling gaze.
Nor did you see John Reddy in his leather jacket and jeans, longish hair whipping in the wind, out there joking with his buddies.
He and Tek chased across the high downs above the shore, wind whipping their manes and beards.
Fear was whipping inside him, the fear that he had mistimed this charge and that the enemy would have a volley ready just yards before the redcoats struck home, but he was committed now, and he ran as hard as he could to break into the white-coated ranks before the volley came.
She calls Ponto an imp of the devil, and that out of revenge for his merited whippings, he and his rightful master are determined to drag her down to hell, for which reason she struggles and beats them off.
So he dove into the cooking with great good humor, whipping up a batch of dinner omelets that had Mati and Prez cooing in admiration.
His pursy mouth gaped open, and instinctively his right hand made a slight whipping motion with the tails, which he instantly checked.
There were elementarii whipping hard at the frightened fire elementals, but that enraged them and some in passing snapped petulant and pyrotic at their handlers and burnt them to death.
He reamed and rodded into her, whipping her body into a frantic frenzy of desire.
The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion.
The whipping loop missed Sheff and Hobgood because they happened to be to one side of it.