How To Use Whipper-in In A Sentence
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Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
Masters of the Hunt
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So it took me some time to come to terms with the fact that he supports fox hunting and his son is a whipper-in.
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One longtime fox hunter, Lewis Sterler, served as a whipper-in from a car with the help of a radio.
More British Than Britain
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It was Mrs Staveley who taught its present amateur whipper-in, Eric Simpson, to ride when he took up the sport at the age of 45.
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The sportsman toils like his gamekeeper, the master of the pack takes as severe exercise as his whipper-in, the statesman or politician drudges more than the professional lawyer; and, to come to my own case, the volunteer author subjects himself to the risk of painful criticism, and the assured certainty of mental and manual labour, just as completely as his needy brother, whose necessities compel him to assume the pen.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Most of our family and friends hunt so it seemed a great way to celebrate, " said Richard, a livestock farmer and an amateur whipper-in with the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.
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This man, the first whipper-in, was accompanied by two thorough-bred dogs, — fox-hounds, white, with liver spots, long in the leg, fine in the muzzle, with slender heads, and little ears at their crests.
Modeste Mignon
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The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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‘We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all,’ says recently-promoted joint hunt master Judith Skilbeck, also whipper-in.
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The revived pack were, of course, fox-hounds and Patricia Loftus was the joint master with the late Dr. O'Brien as well as being the first whipper-in.
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Disraeli, not yet fully recognised as leader of the protectionists, was working hard for that position, and assumed the manners of it, with Beresford, a kind of whipper-in, for his right-hand man.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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They are their own fanfare, their own roll on the kettle-drums, their own whipper-in.
Another Voice
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It was the best Devil I ever saw, and riding thus like a whipper-in after the parsons, had a strange and ridiculous appearance.
Letter 292
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It ended prematurely when one whipper-in and horse tumbled over a ridge, though neither was injured.
More British Than Britain
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A whipper-in, asked what they would do if they uncovered a quarry, said smiling: ‘We'll have to see what pops up.’
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Mr Ferry began his hunting career as a whipper-in with Yorkshire's Middleton Hunt, before becoming the country's youngest master of a hunt, in Shropshire.
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Mr Ferry is a well-known hunt supporter and joined the Middleton hunt in Yorkshire as a whipper-in four years ago after leaving Marlborough College.
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Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
Masters of the Hunt
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And what is Anne McGuire thinking of in acting as a whipper-in for these malcontents?
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There is also some ado about puppy-walking and what a whipper-in does, and a number of references to hip flasks.
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The analogy is exact: it is moderately rare for the whipper-in to whip a hound.
The Spectator's Notes
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The singer, whose son Otis is an assistant whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, which sets off from Malton, has spoken of his support for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance.
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Among the functionaries are a musician-fool, and a kind of whipper-in called the Pot-raj.
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Lent; but his voice being so extremely musical, that it rather allured the birds than terrified them, he was soon transplanted from the fields into the dog-kennel, where he was placed under the huntsman, and made what the sportsmen term whipper-in.
Joseph Andrews Vol 1
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Otis was a whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, based at Birdsall, near Malton.
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“Here come the ladies,” said the second whipper-in.
Modeste Mignon
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After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in.
