What is the difference between quirt and whip?

Whip is a synonym of quirt.

As nouns the difference between quirt and whip

is that quirt is a rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide while whip is a lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.

As verbs the difference between quirt and whip

is that quirt is to strike with a quirt while whip is to hit with a whip.

quirt

English

Noun

(en noun)

A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

*about 1900 , O. Henry,

*:He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.

He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt .

* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:

* 1973 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), Don't Point That Thing at Me , Penguin (2001), page 96:

*:She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.

* 1994 , (Cormac McCarthy), The Crossing :

He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt .

Verb

(en verb)

To strike with a quirt.

whip

English

Noun

(en noun)

A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals

# Same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.

(hunting) A whipper-in.

* 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 27:

From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.

(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.

Whipped cream.

(nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.

(African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.

(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.

Synonyms

* (last for directing animals) crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (lash for corporal punishment) cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (political party enforcer) party whip

Derived terms

* bullock-whip * bullwhip * buggy whip * coachwhip * dogwhip * drafting whip * horsewhip * longe whip * party whip * signal whip, signalwhip * snake whip, snakewhip * stockwhip * whipcracking * whip snake * yard whip

Verb

(whipp)

To hit with a whip.

The rider whipped the horse.

By extension, to hit with any flexible object.

I whipped her with a newspaper.

(slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.

* 2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel

She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.

To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.

to whip eggs or cream

To urge into action.

He whipped the department into shape.

(nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.

* Moxon

Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.

(nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.

to whip a ruffle

* John Gay

In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.

To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.

* He whipped the ball at me.

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To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.

* Emerson

whipping their rough surface for a trout

To snap back and forth like a whip.

* The pennants whipped in the wind.

To move very fast.

* The wind whipped through the valley.

* L'Estrange

Two friends, travelling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.

* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)

He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.

To move (something) very fast; often with up'', ''out , etc.

* L'Estrange

She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.

* Walpole

He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.

(roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.

(figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.

* Shakespeare

They would whip me with their fine wits.

To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

to whip wheat

Synonyms

* flail * flog * knout * lash * quirt * scourge * thrash * thresh

Derived terms

* whip in * whip off * whipped vote * whipper * whip up

References

* Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books :