Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flogger.
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Examples
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My iron-bound fist took him full betwixt the eyes, and looking down upon his crushed and spattered face as he lay I knew that Pedro the whip-master would whip men no more these many days.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Presently, along the gangway amidships, comes none other than that accursed Portugal, Pedro the whip-master, who, espying the drooping form of the Frenchman beside me, forthwith falls a-cursing in his vile tongue and gives a prodigious flourish with his whip.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Man arises to be his own whip-master, and terrible
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