horsewhip
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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Origin of horsewhip
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Then on one spring day in April 2016, Margaret did something for the first time in her riding life: She dropped her horsewhip.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
That dropped horsewhip, they soon knew, was an early sign of the brain tumors that would end her life a year later.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
In an incident reported in the British papers, the father of the young woman who would become Mr. Wilson’s second wife once descended on a dinner party in the couple’s London flat, brandishing a horsewhip.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013
Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler?
From Time Magazine Archive
Jemmy found the horsewhip where Hold-Your- Nose Billy had dropped it.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
Young Bennett lived in Europe for most of his childhood; his mother could not abide the ostracism of a polite society that noticed her husband only when it horsewhipped him.
From Time Magazine Archive
When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly.
From Time Magazine Archive
One was the soul of a good lady; the other was the horsewhipped body of a bad man.
From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Talbot Baines Reed
That scoundrel? that blackleg? that villain who was horsewhipped at Epsom?
From The Living Link by James De Mille
I never, indeed, horsewhipped the wrong man, but that is only because I never horsewhipped anybody at all, Heaven forefend!
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 by Various
Dozens of readers are arguing about the credibility of the plot line that saw Thomas’ misunderstanding with Jimmy the junior footman result in his receiving a promotion rather than a jail term or a horsewhipping.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2013
"The Four Seasons," to San Francisco, are the four socialite daughters of horsewhipping Mike De Young, who founded the Chronicle in 1865 and died in 1925.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But what has a horsewhipping and a citaytion to the Bishop's Court to do with aich other?"
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
I did not say, afterwards, that I had forgotten all about the horsewhipping, and that the marks of the pad had worn out.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
He had heard about the horsewhipping; and aware of that mad passion called the Trevlyn temper, he could not do otherwise than believe it.
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
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