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trike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

o called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. [Written also whippowil.]

Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.

A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.

A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.

To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

A large sting ray (Dasybatis, or Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.

One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.

A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.

A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person. [Colloq.] "Little whippersnappers like you." T. Hughes.

a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.

drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.

A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.

A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.

A whipstock.

A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper. Every puny whipster gets my sword. Shak.

Whip handle; whipstock.

The act or process of whipstitching.

The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.