Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See the extract.
  • noun One who whips; particularly, an officer who inflicts punishment by legal whipping.
  • noun A flagellant.
  • noun Something that surpasses or beats all; a “whopper.”
  • noun One who raises coals with a whip from a ship's hold: same as coal-whipper.
  • noun In spinning, a simple kind of willow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
  • noun engraving One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
  • noun (Spinning) A kind of simple willow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of whip; a person or thing that whips.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip

Etymologies

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whip +‎ -er

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