stock-whip

• “Blacks employ it as ropes, as stays for canoes, and, split into narrow threads and woven, for baskets and fish-traps; and white men find it handy for all sorts of purposes, from boat-painters and fenders to stock-whip and maul-handles.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “The crack of the stock-whip mingled continually with the barking of the”

  In Search of the Castaways

• “Being somewhat envious of a stock-whip in the possession of the”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

• “I would say flog him," replied Smithers; "take him into the bush, so that his voice cannot be heard at the house, and tie him up to a tree; give him a taste of the stock-whip, and send him home to his master, with a request that if he takes a fancy to the brutes, he either keeps them on his run, or teaches them to exhibit better propensities when they visit his neighbours.”

  Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter

• “Rainsfield then called one of the men, and directed him to get Smith, the stock-man, to take the black fellow into the bush for a few hundred yards, and tie him up to a tree with his back bared, and take a stock-whip with him, and await the coming of himself and Mr. Smithers.”

  Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter

• “I have got a fellow on the station that would cut a piece clean out of the hide of a bullock with his stock-whip.”

  Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter

• “He lay quite flat, face downward; but the back of his head was a shapeless blood-clotted mass, and a heavy stock-whip, the butt end ghastly because of the blood and hair which clung to it, lay beside him.”

  The Devil Doctor

• “He lay quite flat, face downward; but the back of his head was a shapeless blood-dotted mass, and a heavy stock-whip, the butt end ghastly because of the blood and hair which clung to it, lay beside him.”

  The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

• “Out of the school perhaps he would reach a score of the leviathans, his bullets biting into them like whip-lashes, so that each, like a colt surprised by the stock-whip, would leap in the air, or with a flirt of tail dive under the surface, and then charge madly across the ocean and away from sight in a foam-churn of speed.”

  Chapter 12

• “Then the jolt in the dark over the sliprails, the slow strain of the wheels up the hill, the cracking of Moongarr Bill's stock-whip, and the sound of long drawn coo-ees.”

  Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

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