Whip: Definition and part of speech

Whip

  1. v. t. A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
  4. v. t. 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.
  5. v. t. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
  6. v. t. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
  7. v. t. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
  8. v. t. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
  9. v. t. 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.
  10. v. t. 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.
  11. 1v. t. 1 A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
  12. 1v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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