stock whipとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

stockwhip (複数形 stockwhips)

1. An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 80, [1]

     […] 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.

上位語

• whip

動詞

stockwhip (三人称単数 現在形 stockwhips, 現在分詞 stockwhipping, 過去形および過去分詞形 stockwhipped)

1. (transitive) To use such a whip.
   • 1964, Frederick Christian Folkard, The Remarkable Australians, page 95:

     He then started to stockwhip Frencham, curling the whip six times around his body.

外部リンク

• stockwhip on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• whipstock