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horsewhip
CIDE DICTIONARY
horsewhip, n.
A whip for horses. [1913 Webster]
horsewhip, v. t.
To flog or chastise with a horsewhip. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
horsewhip, n. & v.
--n. a whip for driving horses.
--v.tr. (-whipped, -whipping) beat with a horsewhip.
--n. a whip for driving horses.
--v.tr. (-whipped, -whipping) beat with a horsewhip.
THESAURUS
horsewhip
baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blacksnake, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, cane, cat, club, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, scourge, sjambok, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thong, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whiplash, whopROGET THESAURUS
horsewhip
Punishment
VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.For further exploring for "horsewhip" in Webster Dictionary Online