whipper-in
Americannoun
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whippers-in
plural
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Fox Hunting. a professional or honorary member of a hunt staff who assists the huntsman with the hounds.
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British. whip.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of whipper-in
First recorded in 1730–40
Example Sentences
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Huntsman John Finnegan and whipper-in Rhys Matcham from the Quorn Hunt were on trial for breaching the 2004 Hunting Act in Leicestershire last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2021
The wife of a former whipper-in in the King's Huntsmen is giving me asylum.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
Lord A——r's head gamekeeper was singularly aided—he possessed a four-legged whipper-in.
From The Dog by Dinks
Up to then it had seemed fate's whipper-in that was driving me.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
It was Forwood, the whipper-in, a terrible “scud” across country, and he was only fifty yards or so ahead of three others, also celebrated for their pace.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
"A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir John Finett and Sir George Goring fulfilled the office of whippers-in, attempting to establish order out of these undisciplined elements.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
"A-tu!" came the long-drawn cry of one of the borzoi whippers-in, who had halted.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
At the farm, the Master, leaving the hounds to the care of the whippers-in, waited till the villagers and the farmers had congregated in the yard.
From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees
In other words, to make ourselves the whippers-in of said union.
From 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. by James C. Beeks
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