whip jacks

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• Whip

  ·vt The long pennant. ·see Pennant (a). II. Whip ·vt To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. III....

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• whip

  I. A single rope rove through a single block to hoist in light articles. Where greater and steadie...

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• whip upon whip

  A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...

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• skip jacks

  Youngsters that ride horses on sale, horse- dealers boys. Also a plaything made for children with th...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• slap-jacks

  Pancakes made of the whole size of the frying-pan or spider. A country girl formerly was not conside...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jack's alive

  A once popular sea-port dance. ...

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• Sea whip

  ·- A gorgonian having a simple stem. ...

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• Whip-shaped

  ·adj Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or s...

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• to whip off

  To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stock-whip

  n. whip for driving cattle.See quotations. 1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100: «The s...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• whip-bird

  n. See coach-whip bird. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• whip-snake

  n. or Little Whip-Snake.See under snake. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• whip-stick

  n. variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub. 1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• whip-tail

  n. 1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation. 2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• penny-whip

  very small beer. Lane, a penny per quart. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• coach-whip

  The pendant. ...

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• double-whip

  A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...

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• whip-staff

  See whipII ...

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• whip-jack

  An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.) ...

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• whip-ray

  A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...

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• whip-saw

  The largest of that class of useful instruments, being that generally used at the saw-pit. ...

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• jack's quarter-deck

  The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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• Whip-poor-will

  ·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; — so called ...

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• Whip-tom-kelly

  ·noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; — called also black-whisker...

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• to whip the cock

  A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• whip-belly vengeance

  or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• coach-whip bird

  n. Psophodes crepitans,V. and H. (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 15);Black-throate...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• little whip-snake

  See snake ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• knight of the whip

  A coachman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose