Definitions
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
Word origin
From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wippōną (“to move back and forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to shake; to swing”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).
Used in a sentence
“I had to use the whip to get the sheep's attention.”
“Once he ran out of appeals, he knew he would soon feel the sting of the whip.”
“I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Cream beater”4 letters
02“Kitchen beater”4 letters
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