stockwhip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.
    — […] Mrs. Pansy McLash, the keeper of the Siding House, was flogging a herd of goats from her garden. The goats surged on to the railway, intent on escaping the stockwhip whistling behind, and Mrs. McLash went after them, intent on teaching them the lesson of their lives.
动词 v.
  1. To use such a whip. transitive
    — He then started to stockwhip Frencham, curling the whip six times around his body.

词形变化

stockwhips plural stockwhips present,singular,third-person stockwhipping participle,present stockwhipped participle,past stockwhipped past

词源

词源 1
From stock + whip.
词源 2
From stock + whip.
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