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stock whip

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noun

  1. a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The duke and duchess were also shown a display of whip cracking on horseback and inspected some bush artefacts during their visit, while the prince was presented with a stock whip.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2012

Unarmed but for a stock whip, she flew at the kings of the jungle and lashed them into retreat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Master, this time, of the Australian stock whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were looking over our revolvers, and he said, 'That's the only thing that feels wrong; it ought to be a stock whip!'

From Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

At the end of an hour's conversation they heard the cracking of the landlord's stock whip and the bellowing of cattle as they crossed the creek, and the Chinaman rose and held out his hand.

From "Chinkie's Flat" 1904 by Louis Becke

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