Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as mallee.
  • noun Same as whip-stock.

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

  • noun Whip handle; whipstock.

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

  • noun A whipstock; the handle of a whip.

Etymologies

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whip +‎ stick

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Examples

  •     Michael, meanwhile, kept tapping his whipstick against his right thigh, letting Rob know he'dloveto work this his own special way.

    Ticket To Ride 2010

  • When he had done these things without difficulty, she demanded that he should peel the sandstone, and cut her a whipstick from the ice without making a splinter.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

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