whipstick
nounEtymology From whip + stick.
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A whipstock; the handle of a whip.
- So Priestley, with a sinister glitter in his patient eyes, had reversed his whipstick, pliant end downward, and bent along the ground. He knew the nature of seasoned pine. A sharp jerk, and the whipstick would snap, supplying a nilla-nilla which would make him an over-match for a dozen Folkestones in rotation.1903, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life, Chapter 6: