2. Verb. (third-person singular of horsewhip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horsewhips
1. horsewhip [v] - See also: horsewhip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsewhips
Literary usage of Horsewhips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Late M.P. for Finsbury by Thomas H. Duncombe (1868)
"... opinion—Mr. Duncombe horsewhips the editor of the Age—Munro and Fawcett— The
survivor appeals to Mr. Duncombe—Duels abroad—Capt. Hesse and M. Leon. ..."
2. Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals: A Study in Mental and Social Evolution by Frederick Morgan Davenport (1905)
"Two fashionably dressed young women, attended by their brothers with loaded
horsewhips, came to one of his meetings in 1804. Cartwright was feeling somewhat ..."
3. Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria by Johann Georg Kohl (1844)
"... but the latter ordered their servants to blow a Mazurka on their hunting-horns,
and driving the Jews into the mud with their horsewhips, forced them to ..."
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