WordNet
hunting crop
n. a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates [syn: riding crop]
Usage examples of "hunting crop".
One of them was a hunting crop, which she brandished grandly, until she was more taken with a powder flask which it so happened her father, Sir Jeoffry, had laid down but a few minutes before, in passing through.
Gone was that seductive approach she had used downstairs, replaced by a viciousness, a hunting crop held loosely between her fingers as she pivoted on the balls of her feet to confront him.
The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes's hunting crop came down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone floor.