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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cartwhip .
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Examples
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles; but his eyes were red, and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Jungle Book. 1893
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