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Whisk vs Lope - What's the difference?

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Whisk is a related term of lope.


As a noun whisk

is a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.

As a verb whisk

is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.

As a proper noun lope is

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whisk

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) visk According to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quick, light sweeping motion.
  • With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
  • A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
  • He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
  • A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
  • Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
  • A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
  • '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
  • A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
  • A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • My wife in her new lace whisk .
  • (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
  • (Halliwell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
  • * J. Fletcher
  • He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
  • In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
  • To move something rapidly and with no warning.
  • * Walpole
  • I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
  • To move lightly and nimbly.
  • *
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The card game whist.
  • lope

    English

    Verb

    (lop)
  • (obsolete) To jump, leap.
  • *, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
  • *:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
  • *Middleton
  • *:He that lopes on the ropes.
  • To travel an easy pace with long strides.
  • :He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
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