quirt

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He plied his quirt, and looked back.

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  1. noun A riding whip with a short handle and a lash of braided rawhide.

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  • Chapter Five The roan horse shied back from the fire and the rider applied the quirt, driving it through the smoke, where human servants labored with axe and wet sacking and mattocks to keep it from passing the Road. —  Cherryh,_C.J._-_Exiles_Gate.htm
  • He bore a gilt-handled quirt, and it roused him to a fury to punish me with it, chasing me about the cushions and flailing at my buttocks, breathing hard to see the thin red welts that ensued. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Quite without emotion And you flogged him with your--quirt Sure The man's teeth clipped together Oh, yes," he went on, after a moment. —  The Heart of Unaga
  • At this Ramon’s tortured nerves exploded and he jumped into the water after the floundering animal, belabouring it with a quirt, and cursing it richly in two languages He then put a slip noose around its upper lip and led it unmercifully, while Curtis encouraged it from behind with a rope-end. —  The Blood of the Conquerors
  • Drew would never use quirt or spur on the stud. —  Rebel Spurs
 

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  1. Probably from American Spanish cuarta, whip, ultimately from Latin quārta, fourth; see quart.

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  1. Perhaps from Spanish cuerda, a cord, rope: see cord.
  2. from quirt, n.
 

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