whip
verb (used with object)
whipt
Example Sentences
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If you will hang me for it, you may; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
In 1635 Thomas Petet “for suspition of slander, idleness and stubbornness is to be severely whipt and kept in hold.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
But in the name of the righteous lady, whoever she be, was there ever such a hang-dog rogue as I?—such a whipt cur with his tail between his legs?
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
Had it not been better to have whipt off half their noses, though they had snuffled for it, than to have covered their faces with scrubbing-brushes?
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an expert assistant, furnished," &c.
From Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters also, Miseries of Fishing by Richard Penn
