horsewhip
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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
Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse."
From Time Magazine Archive
Jemmy found the horsewhip where Hold-Your- Nose Billy had dropped it.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And if I had confided in him, and he had horsewhipped Henshaw, what good could that have done?
From The Hunt Ball Mystery by William Magnay
It was like 'Cecil Rhodes submitting to be horsewhipped by a Boer as an apology for some indefensible death incidental to the Jameson Raid.'
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
Ben Taylor was present when Lola Montez horsewhipped Henry Shibley, editor of the Grass Valley National, for what she considered derogatory reflections on herself, published in his paper.
From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Thomas Dykes Beasley
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
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
By Janders!" said the colonel with an open smile; "I believe you'd just as soon tackle a banker as to eat your dinner; and I'd about as soon take a horsewhipping.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
Apology!" said Durfy, "apology for a horsewhipping, indeed!
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Samuel Lover
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