Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hand that holds the whip in riding or driving—that is, the right hand.
- noun An advantage, or advantageous position.
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Examples
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Her whip-hand rose quickly, half way, as if to press her breast, and half way paused irresolutely, then dropped down to her side.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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It would be nice to be able to suggest to people in good faith that they read some Kant, but it strikes me as the kind of thing you sort of need to read under the watchful eye and whip-hand of a teacher if you actually want to get through any of it.
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Besides, the ranch included the clay-pit, and it would give him the whip-hand over Holdsworthy if he ever tried to cut up any didoes.
Chapter IX 2010
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And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.
In a Far Country 2010
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Daylight never gave his own word unless he held the whip-hand.
Chapter V 2010
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I agree with MY that the “watchful eye and whip-hand” was the only way I ever got through Kant and Aristotle (in English).
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Beyond this, what Mr. Santorum's astonishing whip-hand run to a photo finish from the rear of the pack means is hard to know exactly, but the increasingly smug Romney campaign ought to give it thought.
A House Divided Daniel Henninger 2012
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I agree with MY that the “watchful eye and whip-hand” was the only way I ever got through Kant and Aristotle (in English).
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And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.
In a Far Country 2010
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The country was the first to rebel against slavery and to successful cast off the whip-hand -- and so it was brutally punished by the French Empire.
Johann Hari: The Enduring Truth-Telling of Noam Chomsky 2010
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