quirt

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

quirt, n. 

 A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.  T. Roosevelt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quirt, n. & v.
--n. a short-handled riding-whip with a braided leather lash.
--v.tr. strike with this.

Etymology

Sp. cuerda CORD

ROGET THESAURUS

quirt

Scourge

N scourge, rod, cane, stick, ratan, rattan, birch, birch rod, azote, blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok, rod in pickle, switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon, whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout, cat, cat o'nine tails, rope's end, pillory, stocks, whipping post, cucking stool, ducking stool, brank, trebuchet, trebuket, triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel, chinese water torture, treadmill, crank, galleys, scaffold, block, ax, guillotine, stake, cross, gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring, death chair, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, mecate, house of correction, goaler, jailer, executioner, electrocutioner, lyncher, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.