Definitions

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  • noun An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.

Etymologies

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stock +‎ whip

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Examples

  • And he swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer,

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • And they charged beneath the stockwhip with a sharp and sudden dash,

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Saw him ply the stockwhip fiercely, he was right among them still,

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • And after their meal he roared out for the object of his suspicious hatred, whom he persisted in calling Hempenstall, and caused him to sing for his sport; then, taking down a stockwhip, he flogged him for making ugly faces.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Half a dozen men mounted on well-trained horses, each carrying his stockwhip, start for the run.

    Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

  • The stockwhip is composed of a lash of plaited raw hide, twelve to fifteen feet long, and about one and half inches thick at the belly, which is close to the handle.

    Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

  • We heard the fellow call out something -- a threat -- and Dad's arm went up, and the stockwhip came down like a flash across the man's shoulder He gave one yell!

    A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • He made a sign to us to keep quiet and went across the yard, and we saw him shake the lash of his stockwhip loose.

    A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • And you'll just mind – the lot of you – that it's my orders to stockwhip blacks off the place, and that if any Unionist delegates show their faces through the sliprails they're not allowed to stop five minutes inside the paddock fence. '

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • McKeith cut short the argument – sound logic it seemed to Lady Biddy – by an imperious, silencing gesture, and a sudden unfurling of his stockwhip, which made a hissing sound as it writhed along the ground like a snake.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

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