What is another word for whips?

Pronunciation: [wˈɪps] (IPA)

Whips are devices used to strike someone or something to produce a cracking sound or the sensation of pain. There are many synonyms for the word whips, including floggers, lashes, switches, rods, and crops. Floggers are multi-tailed whips commonly used in BDSM play. Lashes are long whips made from leather or suede, used in horse riding and as a form of corporal punishment. Switches are flexible whips made from natural materials like willow branches and are used for punishment or to drive animals. Rods are stiff whips used to discipline and punish children in the past. Crops are short whips used in horseback riding to signal the horse.

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Usage examples for Whips

While the hands of the entire tribe would be busy, and while I should direct and help in the making of sleds, catching of game, preparing of meat, I knew that my mind would find continual excitement in dreams of my quest, in anticipating and solving its difficulties, in feeling the bounding pulse of the dash over the ice of the Polar sea, with dogs joyously barking, whips cracking the air, and the reappearing sun paving our pathway with liquid gold.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Neither our voices nor the whips made an impression on their wild speed.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We dropped our whips, and they responded with all their brute force in one bound.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Whips

  • Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
    John Candy
  • I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
    Jonathan Franzen
  • Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
    John Ruskin
  • Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
    Ayn Rand
  • For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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