WHIP, v.t. [L., a sweeping throw or thrust.]

1. An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
2. In ships, a small tackle, used to hoist light bodies. – Mar. Dict. Whip and spur, with the utmost haste.

To move nimbly; to start suddenly and run; or to turn and run; as, the boy whipped away in an instant; he whipped round the corner; he whipped into the house, and was out of sight in a moment.

1. To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
2. To sew slightly. – Gay.
3. To drive with lashes; as, to whip a top.
4. To punish with the whip; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one thirty-nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. Who, for false quantities, was whipp'd at school. – Dryden.
5. To lash with sarcasm. They would whip me with their fine wits. – Shak.
6. To strike; to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. – Cyc. [Not in use in the United States.] To whip about or round, to wrap; to inwrap; as, to whip a line round a rod. – Moxon. To whip out, to draw nimbly; to snatch; as, to whip out a sword or rapier from its sheath. To whip from, to take away suddenly. To whip into, to thrust in with a quick motion. He whipped his hand into his pocket. To whip up, to seize or take up with a quick motion. She whipped up the child, and ran off. Among seamen, to hoist with a whip or small tackle.

1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe] to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
2. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
   
   

   With speed from thence he whipped. Sackville.

   Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground. L'Estrange.

3. An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
   
   
   "[A] whip's lash." Chaucer.

   In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun. Addison.

4. A whipping motion; a thrashing about; as, the whip of a tense rope or wire which has suddenly parted; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
5. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
6. A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
   
   
   Beaconsfield.
7. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions.
8. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
   
   

   Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school. Dryden.

9. One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
   
   
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10. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
    
    

    They would whip me with their fine wits. Shak.

11. A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
    
    
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12. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
13. A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper- in.
14. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
15. A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
    
    
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16. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
    
    
    [Slang, U. S.]
17. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
    
    

    Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut. Moxon.

18. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
    
    

    In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie. Gay.

19. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
    
    

    She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. L'Estrange.

    He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. Walpole.

20. To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
    
    
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21. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
    
    

    Whipping their rough surface for a trout. Emerson.

    To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. -- To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]