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A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip. Chapman.

To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Hence, any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her house, did with his amarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser.

tring wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.

A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

The act of beating or whipping. [Obs.]

A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Holland.

To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

ake heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. Coleridge.

Same as Whippletree.

To strike or lash with a whip. [Obs. or Scot.]

fine- grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.