Stockwhip

Word STOCKWHIP
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Definitions and meanings of "Stockwhip"

What do we mean by stockwhip?

An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.

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The word "stockwhip" in example sentences

Saw him ply the stockwhip fiercely, he was right among them still, ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

And they charged beneath the stockwhip with a sharp and sudden dash, ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

And he swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer, ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

And after their meal he roared out for the object of his suspicious hatred, whom he persisted in calling Hempenstall, and caused him to sing for his sport; then, taking down a stockwhip, he flogged him for making ugly faces. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Half a dozen men mounted on well-trained horses, each carrying his stockwhip, start for the run. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

The stockwhip is composed of a lash of plaited raw hide, twelve to fifteen feet long, and about one and half inches thick at the belly, which is close to the handle. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

We heard the fellow call out something -- a threat -- and Dad's arm went up, and the stockwhip came down like a flash across the man's shoulder He gave one yell! ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

He made a sign to us to keep quiet and went across the yard, and we saw him shake the lash of his stockwhip loose. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

And you'll just mind – the lot of you – that it's my orders to stockwhip blacks off the place, and that if any Unionist delegates show their faces through the sliprails they're not allowed to stop five minutes inside the paddock fence. ' ❋ Unknown (1915)

McKeith cut short the argument – sound logic it seemed to Lady Biddy – by an imperious, silencing gesture, and a sudden unfurling of his stockwhip, which made a hissing sound as it writhed along the ground like a snake. ❋ Unknown (1915)

McKeith carried his coiled stockwhip in the hand which held Wombo. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Then came the sound of the herded beasts being driven to the yard at sundown and, by-and-by, of Joe Casey's stockwhip as he got up the milkers. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Miss Bibby herself, clad in the limp lavender muslin, had been encountered lashing about with a stockwhip or hurling blue metal wildly in all directions. ❋ Ethel Sybil Turner (1915)

They had but one dog, which, being young and "whip shy," had vanished into the distant landscape at the sound of Murty's stockwhip, leaving them but their own energies to persuade the calves; and when a poddy calf becomes obstinate there are few animals less easy to persuade. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Jim's own stockwhip, to which Norah always attended after he had gone away, lest the supple thong should become harsh through disuse. ❋ Unknown (1911)

If you keep still, you can almost swear you can hear old Monarch's hoofs coming up the track – and half a dozen times I've been certain I caught the crack of his stockwhip. ❋ Unknown (1911)

We heard the fellow call out something – a threat – and Dad's arm went up, and the stockwhip came down like a flash across the man's shoulder He gave one yell! ❋ Unknown (1910)

Like a flash one of the black boys darted out of the line, galloped to the head of the cattle, and rode there, pursued by the flying mob, the cracks of his heavy stockwhip sounding above the roar of hoofs and the bellowing of the cattle. ❋ Unknown (1902)

I'm like a rat if I'm cornered, but it takes a man with a stockwhip to corner me. ❋ Unknown (1902)

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