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
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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
Down the cross-road approached the hounds themselves, headed by their whipper-in and surrounding the picturesque figure of the huntsman.
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome
The huntsman, besides his horn, was furnished with a white flag, fastened to a staff shod with iron; while the whipper-in had a red flag.
From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas
But after all, it was not his business to be the whipper-in for lectures.
From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Nell Speed
No civilian, however good-looking or clean-limbed—and I rather pique myself upon my pins—has the ghost of a chance when opposed in the lists of love to an officer, a mail-guard, a whipper-in, or a postman.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
"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
"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
I have a suspicion that my uncles are there, behind that door, and that, while our whippers-in are firing off guns in the courtyard, they are waiting with a blanket to toss me.
From Mauprat by Stanley Young
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
Without waiting to solve these problems, we collected what we could of our outfit and returned to Philipovo, leaving the task of finding the dogs to the whippers-in.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
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