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UK
/hˈɔːswɪpɪŋ/
]
NOUN
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the act of whipping with a horsewhip
that villain needs a good horsewhipping
How To Use horsewhipping In A Sentence
- She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P. The Great Hoggarty Diamond
- Do ascertain the truth before you do anything violent, such as horsewhipping or poisoning. ' Wives and Daughters
- Why, now I bethink me, he _was_ present," replied Blaize, involuntarily putting his hand to his shoulder, as he recalled the horsewhipping he had received on that occasion. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
- At others he gave them “a good horsewhipping,” in the hope of deflecting pressures to fire them. The Return
- Mr. Pearson was not quite as lucky two years later, when — possibly emboldened by his success with McAlister against Loughnan, and the abrupt and helpful findings of Mr. Justice à Beckett — our great great grandfather was convicted of assault in an ugly horsewhipping episode. Archive 2009-05-01
- Ugadale Arms Hotel unattractive horsewhipping episode Fountains Flowing With Wine
- In 1957 when Lord Altrincham complained that she sounded like a ‘priggish schoolgirl’, he was predictably threatened with horsewhipping and the borough of Altrincham hastened to dissociate itself from so subversive an opinion.
- that villain needs a good horsewhipping
- Her scandals were manifold, including, perhaps unsurprisingly, a case of horsewhipping. Times, Sunday Times
- She responded to a critical article in the Ballarat Times by horsewhipping the editor, who retaliated in kind.