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noun Whipping n. A & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
verb Whip v. t. (past & past part. whipped; pres. part. whipping) 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 drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top. 3.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." 4.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." 5.To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. 6.To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like. 7.To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. (Slang, U. S.) 8.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." 9.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." 10.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." "He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees." 11.(Naut.) (a)To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. (b)To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. 12.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." 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.) (b)To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. (Prov. & U. S.)
Whip v. i. 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." "Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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