Pa. t. and pple. whipped, whipt. Forms: 3 wippen, hwippen, 4 wippe, wype, 4–6 wyppe, whippe, 5 whype, 5–6 whyppe, 6 quip, wyp, Sc. quhip(pe, quhyppe, 8–9 Sc. whup, wheep, 9 Sc. and dial. wip, 6– whip. [The early history of this verb and its related sb. is uncertain. The senses of both no doubt represent several independent adoptions or formations. With the earliest uses of the vb. cf. (M)LG., Du. wippen to move up and down or to and fro, swing, oscillate, leap, dance, = MHG. wipfen to dance; from LG. are app. derived early Da. vippe to raise with a swipe, clip coin, also † hvippe to move quickly, leap, beat with a whip (?), Da. vippe to toss, see-saw, Sw. vippa, G. wippen to rock, tilt, see-saw, strappado, WFris. wippe, wipje to move quickly. The base wip- is also represented by forms cited s.v. WHIP adv., and by several compounds, as (M)LG. wipgalge, Du. wipgalg, early Da. vippegalge strappado, Du. wipbrug, early Da. vippebrygge drawbridge, Du. wipplank see-saw, wipstaart wagtail, wipvisite flying visit, (M)LG. (G.) wipper money-clipper, LG. wipwap see-saw; and prob. G. wipfel tree-top, summit; Goth. wipja ‘crown’ represents a sense-development (‘wind or bind round,’ branch III below) which is more extensively exemplified by the form derived from the variants weip-, waip- (Goth. waips wreath, crown, weipan to crown, ON. veipr head-dress, OHG. weif bandage; cf. WIPE). Cf. the parallel sw-formations s.v. SWEPE sb.1, SWIP v., SWOPE. The spelling with wh was presumably adopted as being symbolic.]
I. To move briskly, etc.
1. intr. † a. To flap violently with the wings.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1066 (Cotton MS.). Þi song mai bo so longe genge Þat þu shalt wippen [v.r. hwippen] on a sprenge.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 8197. When þey hadde longe to-gyder smyten,… Wyppyng wyþ wenges,… Cracchyng wiþ clawes.
b. gen. († occas. refl.) To make a sudden brisk movement; to move hastily or nimbly; to slip or shift quickly; almost always with adverbial extension (about, in, off, out, etc.).
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 363. Sho … saw þe dure was oppyn, & whippid in & lokkid þe dure faste.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 69 b. When he by chaunce sawe a mous rennyng and whippyng about from place to place. Ibid. (1548), etc., Erasm. Par. Mark ii. 13–17. The sicke of the palsey, when he whipt out of his bed, and went home into his house.
1592. Greene, Disput., B 4. Why then quoth shee, steppe into this Closet, hee whipt in hastely.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, I. iii. 63. I whipt [Qo. whipt me] behind the Arras.
a. 1604. Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1633), 189. The Bishop seeing … the imminent danger, whipt out at a backe doore.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1768), IV. 261. I can land these Ladies in France; whip over before they can get a passage back, [etc.].
1773. Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., V. ii. If your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin.
1786. Burns, Ordination, vii. Oh rare! to see our elbucks wheep, And a’ like lamb-tails flyin.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxxix. We’ll whip in at the back door.
1876. Coursing Calendar, 19. The hare then whipped downhill.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., xiii. He whipped out of sight in a moment.
1907. J. H. Patterson, Man-Eaters of Tsavo, xvii. 186. The moment he [sc. a rhinoceros] got wind of me, he whipped round in his tracks like a cat and came for me.
† c. with it, in same sense (see also WHIPPET v.); also fig. in phr. to whip it in with, ? to ingratiate oneself with. Obs.
1540. Palsgr., Acolastus, II. iv. M iv b. Whipping it aboute for ioye.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lv. 216. Let’s whip it away.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Amusem., iii. (1709), 40. I found my Neighbour K— … was made a Commission-Officer by the Name of Captain Whip ’em, I … judg’d he had been Whipping it in with the Gentlewomen before mention’d.
2. trans. To move (something) in some way suddenly or briskly; to take, put, pull, push, strike, cut, flourish, etc., with a sudden vigorous movement or action; fig. to ‘come out with,’ utter suddenly. Almost always with adverbial extension (away, off, out, up, etc.).
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 2249. When þou wypped of my hede at a wap one.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumbras, 1617. Wyþ þat strok A wypede of his heued.
c. 1450. Mankind, 788, in Macro Plays, 29. I wyppe yt in þi cote; a-non yt wer don.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. vii. 128. With hys brycht brand his rycht hand he of quhyppyt.
c. 1540. Bk. Fayre Gentylwoman, B j. She [sc. Fortune] whyppeth her wheele about.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 2173/2. I stirred out of my bed & whipt on my hose.
1600. 1st Pt. Sir J. Oldcastle, I. iii. 202. He … leapes behind me, whippes my purse away.
1602. Shaks., Ham., IV. i. 10. Hearing something stirre, He whips his Rapier out.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Char. Jacobite Clergy, Wks. 1711, IV. 262. If they can but get to be a Lord’s Chaplain, they immediately whip on a long Scarf.
1740. Richardson, Pamela, I. 165. I popt down, and whipt my fingers under the upper Tile.
1773. Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., II. ad fin. I’ll engage to whip her off to France.
1821. Life D. Haggart (ed. 2), 98. I wheep’t out my chive.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, iii. ‘Ah! Grant, Grant!’ said Lord Vincent, eagerly, who saw another opportunity of whipping in a pun.
1829. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), I. 6. When the Protestants found themselves in danger of being oppressed … they whipt another king upon the throne, and kept him there.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, III. v. Whipping a dozen into prison or into the pillory.
1889. W. Clark Russell, Marooned, ii. (1891), 6. These considerations … made me whip out, ‘Miss Grant, it is settled. We sail together.’
b. slang. To drink quickly, ‘toss off.’ Usually with off or up. Hence fig. (see quot. 1687).
a. 1600. Deloney, Gentle Craft, Wks. (1912), 164. When they had whipt off two or three quarts of wine.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. v. 24. Whip me off this glasse nearly [Fr. Fouette may ce verre qualentement].
1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. To whip off a Thing, to make short work with it, expedier (depecher promtement) quêque Chose.
1692. L’Estrange, Fables, Life Æsop, 11. The Fellow … Whips up the Drink, and gives Xanthus the Pott again Empty.
1814. Sporting Mag., XLIV. 188. Two honest quarts … down gullet whips he.
c. To make up quickly or hastily.
1611. Cotgr., Fesse-breviaire, a Priest that quickly whips ouer, or mumbles vp, his Breuiarie.
1697. Vanbrugh, 2nd Pt. Æsop, 6. Fix upon the place of Treaty,… and whip up the Peace Like an Oyster.
1711. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), III. 133. The Dedication to the Master was whipp’d up.
1861. Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, 48. [The clever nurse] will not bring in the bad article, but not to disappoint the patient, she will whip up something else in a few minutes.
† 3. To pierce with a sword-thrust; to run through. Obs. slang.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Whipt through the Lungs, run through the Body with a Sword.
1710. Addison, Tatler, No. 256, ¶ 1. To make the sun shine through the criminal, or,… to whip him through the lungs.
1842. C. Whitehead, R. Savage, xx. Why, you’re not going there?… This fellow … would make nothing of whipping you through the body.
4. Fencing. intr. To make a thrust in which the blade slides along the opponent’s blade. Also trans. with the blade as obj.
1771. Lonnergan, Fencer’s Guide, 90. By disengaging after you whip, you have Quarte-over-the-arm.
1861. G. Chapman, Foil Practice, 13. Some fencers … perform the Parries of Quarte and Tierce by whipping the blade, with a forward action, along that of the adversary’s.
1889. W. H. Pollock, Fencing, iv. (Badm. Libr.), 82. The point must be raised towards the left shoulder, the hand drawn back a little towards the fencer’s left breast, so that he may whip his blade neatly over the adversary’s point.
5. Naut., etc. trans. To hoist or lower with a whip (WHIP sb. 15).
1769. [see WHIP sb. 15].
1835. [see WHIPPING vbl. sb. 3 c].
1872. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 336. The chair was ‘whipped’ up again instantly.
II. To use a whip, strike with a whip.
6. trans. To strike or beat with or as with a whip. a. To punish or chastise with a whip or rod; to scourge, flog. Also loosely, to beat (esp. a child) with the hand or otherwise, to spank.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 716. Eek Dauid seith: that … they shul nat been whipped with men.
1483. Cath. Angl., 416/1. To Whype, flagellare.
1583. Aldeburgh Rec., in N. & Q., 12th Ser. VII. 367/1. Pd for a cart tht gromes maide was whipte at vid.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 410. Come thou childe, Ile whip thee with a rod. Ibid. (1605), Lear, I. iv. 199. And you lie sirrah, wee’l haue you whipt.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 85. The pictures of Christ whipped, of Christ carrying his crosse, and of Christ praying in the garden.
1624. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. I. i. (ed. 2), 356. She … whipped him [sc. Cupid] … on the bare buttocks with her pantophle.
1664. in Verney Mem. (1904), II. 214. If the ‘Whelps meddle with Sheepe, they must be tied to any Dead sheepe, and whipped soundly.’
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 76, ¶ 1. I must whip my children for going into bad company.
1726–31. Waldron, Descr. Isle of Man (1865), 32. Two or three of them seized her, and pulling up her clothes, whipped her heartily:… she ran home…, telling what had befallen her, and showing her buttocks on which were the prints of several small hands.
1752. Chesterf., Lett. to Dayrolles, 18 Oct. If a poor child is to be whipped equally for telling a lie, or for a snotty nose, he must of course think them equally criminal.
1813. E. S. Barrett, Heroine, iii. (1909), 17. Master Bobby … mewed like a cat, when he was whipt.
1859. Thackeray, Virgin., lxii. She deserves to be whipped, and sent to bed.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., II. 1243. Ah, being young and pretty, ’t were a shame To have her whipped in public.
b. To drive away, out, etc., with a whip. Also fig.
1567. Stanford Churchw. Acc., in Antiquary, XVII. 169/2. For whipping dogges from ye churche.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. i. 29. Consideration like an Angell came, And whipt th’ offending Adam out of him.
1667. Poole, Dial. betw. Protest. & Papist (1735), 100. Tho’ he whipt some out of the Temple, yet he never whipt any into his Church.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 157, ¶ 1. We have so many Hundred unaccountable Creatures every Age whipped up into great Scholars. Ibid. (1712), Ibid., No. 509, ¶ 2. The … boys … were whipped away by a beadle.
1821–2. Shelley, Chas. I., II. 58. If all turncoats were whipped out of palaces, poor Archy would be disgraced in good company.
1878. Robt. Dick, in Smiles, R. D., viii. 82. The storm fairly whipped six vessels out of Scrabster Roads.
c. To drive or urge on (a horse, etc.) with strokes of a whip. Also (occas.) absol.
1587. Mascall, Cattle, Horses (1596), 118. Let him neuer vse to beat them [sc. horses] with the stock of the whip, but to whip them with the lash.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, IV. [VIII.] 70. Saturnia whipt her horse, And heauen gates guarded by the Howers, opte by their proper force. Ibid. (c. 1611), XV. 319. All whipt their chariots on.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, vi. The man whipped his mules till they went as fast as possible.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xix. The coach, and the coachman, and the horses, rattled and jangled and whipped.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, I. xiii. Your lordship will upset the carriage if you whip so hotly.
1859. H. Kingsley, G. Hamlyn, xiii. So, whipping up his horse, he drove there.
1889. Gunter, That Frenchman! xiii. 164. The driver … sees a chance to dodge through an opening in the crowded street, and suddenly whips up for the effort.
d. Hunting. Whip in: to drive (hounds) with the whip back into the pack so as to prevent them from straying; absol. to act as whipper-in. Whip off: to drive (the hounds) with the whip away from the chase; absol. to give over the chase.
1739. [implied in WHIPPER-IN 1].
1859. Sporting Mag., Feb., 80. The hounds were whipped off, as the evening was closing on us. Ibid. (1862), Dec., 438. James Stacey … formerly whipped-in to the late Lord Fitzhardinge’s hounds.
1887. Field, 19 Feb., 231/1. Morris Hills, who whipped in to the Queen’s Staghounds under Davis and King.
e. To spin (a top) by striking it with a whip.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. i. 69. Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy Gigge. Ibid. (1598), Merry W., V. i. 27. Since I … plaide Trewant, and whipt Top.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, VII. 528. As young Striplings whip the Top for sport.
1874. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxxvii. (1896), II. 273. A nice little girl whipping a top on the pavement.
7. Confectionery, etc. To beat up into a froth (cream, eggs, etc.) with a fork, spoon, or other instrument; to prepare (a fancy dish) in this way; also fig. See also quot. 1845.
1673, 1691. [see WARREN ppl. a. 3].
1764. Eliza Moxon, Engl. Housew. (ed. 9), 123. Whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises.
1845. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 177. If the blood be whipt with due care, the fibrin is obtained as a thick … mass, surrounding the twigs of the rod.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xxxvi. When did I whip up syllabub sonnets?
1895. Montrésor, One who looked on, 4. I went to the kitchen to whip a strawberry cream.
8. Angling. To cast the line upon the water with a movement like the stroke of a whip; to draw a fly or other bait along the surface by such a movement; intr., or trans. with the bait or (usually) the water as obj.
1653. [see WHIPPING vbl. sb. 1 d].
1832. Lytton, Eugene Aram, I. ix. Now he whipped it [sc. the fly] lightly on the wave; now he slid it coquettishly along the surface.
1838. G. P. R. James, Robber, ii. He prepared to ascend the stream, whipping it as he went with the light fly.
1883. Black, Shandon Bells, xxix. He worked away, whipping industriously and mechanically.
1914. H. Bindloss, League of Leopard, ii. Thomas Chatterton, who was not a skilful angler, whipped several pools unsuccessfully.
9. trans. To strike like a whip, lash; to move or drive in this way.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. III. 69. The Wind … blew so violently … that the Boughs of the Trees whipt them … before they got thither.
1796. [see WHIPPING vbl. sb. 1 b].
1799. W. Nicol, Pract. Planter, iv. § 9. 219. Suffer no plant to overtop or whip another; keep the extremities of all side branches just touching one another.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxii. One gusty, raw day,… the rain whipping the pavement.
1869. Ld. Lytton, Orval, 67. On the wind That whips one through this wither’d waste.
1882. Garden, 14 Jan., 25/3. Be careful … that the foliage is in to way … whipped by the branches of other trees.
1884. R. Marsden, Cotton Spinning, 90. The primitive method of whipping the cotton with willow wands.
b. intr. To lash, swish; also, to bend or spring like a whip or switch.
1872. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 44/1. Lest the twigs should whip back into my face.
1893. H. M. Doughty, Our Wherry, 76. We could see the mast … whip with the weight.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, iii. The chill wind whipping about my shanks.
10. trans. To bring, get, render, make or produce by whipping (lit. or fig.).
1635. J. Taylor (Water P.), Old, Old Man, D 3. Those Royall Opinions were whip’d out of him.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), IX. 154. Those … whose religion lies no deeper than their skin, may whip themselves holy.
1740. J. Clarke, Educ. Youth (ed. 3), 26. Having had Lily whipp’d into them at School.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1190. A clown going round and whipping a ring: that is, making a circular space amongst the spectators with a whip.
1884. Haweis, My Musical Life, I. 42. He taught me how to whip instead of scraping the sound out [of the violin].
1889. Cornhill Mag., April, 356. The cold has whipped red roses on her checks.
11. fig. To vex, afflict, torment; to punish, chastise; to administer severe satire or reproof to, ‘lash,’ ‘castigate.’
1530. Palsgr., 781/1. I whyppe with a shrode tourne, je baille belle.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 178 b. With what great tormentes & afflictions God hath whypped & scorged this miserable Isle.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. iii. 151. Now step I forth to whip hypocrisie.
1651. H. More, Enthus. Tri. (1656), 71. So unmercifully to whip poor Aristotle.
1831. G. P. R. James, Philip Aug., xxx. More likely … that some little unforeseen accident … should prove our best calculations false, and whip us with our own policy!
1891. Kipling, Light that Failed, xiv. He pressed the girl more closely to himself because the pain whipped him.
† b. esp. imper. as a mild execration: = ‘confound,’ ‘hang.’ Obs.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. i. 49. Whip me such honest knaues. Ibid. (1608), Per., IV. ii. 91. Marie whip the Gosseling.
1759. Compl. Letter-writer (ed. 6), 221. And yet, whip it, there is a satisfaction in reflecting [etc.].
1872. [J. Spilling], Giles’s Trip to Lond., ix. 83. Tarnin’ round I’ll be whipped if the same mischievous brute hadn’t managed to git it throw them wires.
12. To overcome, vanquish, defeat; to surpass, outdo: = BEAT v.1 10. Now U.S. colloq.
1571. Campion, Hist. Irel., II. i. (1633), 64. Reymond … whipped the Rebells, quieted Leinster.
1571. Satir. Poems Reform., xxvi. 100. Ȝe neid na ma bot Gedionis thre hunder To quhip your fais.
1638. R. Baker, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (vol. II.), 17. You will whip the Spaniards in point of generousness.
1833. Sk. of Eccentr. David Crockett, xiii. 164. I’m that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods,…; can whip my weight in wild cats.
1836. Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. I. xxvi. The British can whip the whole airth, and we can whip the British.
1861. Lever, One of Them, xl. We can whip all cre-ātion.
1901. R. S. Warren Bell, Tales of Greyhouse, 18. If Eccles uses his weight cleverly, Wardour will be whipped to a cert.
13. To urge, incite, rouse; to restore to energy or vitality, revive.
1573. Hatton, Lett., in Ld. Campbell, Chancellors, xlv. (1857), II. 265. Shame whippeth me forward.
1815. Helen M. Williams, Narr. Events France, xi. 159. Their dormant patriotism was now awakened, bribed or whipped up.
1835. C. F. Greville, Mem., 28 July (1875), III. xxviii. 280. On this occasion I whipped up the old friendship.
1894. A. Robertson, Nuggets, 29. He cuffed and whipped his brains to no purpose.
14. (orig. fig. from 6 d.) To summon to attend, as the members of a party for a division in Parliament, or any body of persons for some united action. Const. in, up; also simply or absol. Cf. WHIP sb. 6.
1769. (May 8) Burke, in Sir H. Cavendish, Debates Ho. Comm. (1841), I. 426/1. [Here Mr. Burke mentioned the ministry’s sending for their friends to the north and to Paris,] whipping them in; [than which, he said, there could not be a better phrase].
1805. M. Cutler, in Life, etc. (1888), II. 191. On the question of the Georgia claims he undertook to whip in his party.
1833. Macaulay, Lett., 28 Oct., in Trevelyan, Life & Lett. (1876), I. v. 336. Lord Essex was there,… whipping up for a dinner-party.
1857. Toulmin Smith, Parish, 62. With no room for trickery or cajolery, or whipping-up uninformed voters.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 4 Sept., 9/1. The Liberals will probably support it and whip for it.
1898. J. Hollingshead, Gaiety Chron., i. 23. A literary friend, of all people, whipped up a small syndicate of companions to support me.
† 15. pa. pple. Streaked, striped. (After F. fouetté.) Obs.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 137. Another sort [of fig] … is pretty black, having only its Skin a little whipt with gray.
1699. L. Meager, Art of Gardening, 139. It hath white Leafs edged and whiped about, and feathered in the middle with a deep brown purple.
1721. Mortimer, Husb., II. 241. [Tulip] of a sad Red-colour about the Edges, whipped with Crimson.
16. Phrases. a. To whip the cat: used (chiefly dial. or techn. colloq.) in various senses, some of which are not satisfactorily explained.
† (a) To get drunk; ? = ‘to shoot the cat.’ (b) ? To lay the vlame of one’s offences on some one else. (c) To work as an itinerant tailor, carpenter, etc., at private houses by the day. (d) To play a practical joke, for description of which see CAT sb.1 14. (e) To practise extreme parsimony. (f) To shirk work on Monday. (g) Cards. (See quot. 1854.) Cf. whip-cat (under WHIP- 2).
1622. J. Taylor (Water P.), Arrant Thiefe (1625), C 2 b. To be a Drunkard, and the cat to whip, Is call’d the king of all good Fellowship.
1793. Philadelphia Ledger, 19 June, in Daily Chron. (1902), 5 July, 5/1. ‘Whipping the Cat!’:—‘Mirabeau’s ashes were dispersed as belonging to a traitor, by the patriot Brissot, who is styled a villain by the patriot Egalité,’ [etc.].
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, To whip the cat, to practise the most pinching parsimony, grudging even shreds and scraps to the cat. In Suffolk the phrase … is applied to a practice … of the village tailor going from house to house to work.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, iii. Made shoes, a trade he prosecuted in an itinerating manner from house to house—‘whipping the cat,’ as it was termed.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., When one of the players at the game of whist wins all the tricks in one deal, he is said to whip the cat.
1859. Slang Dict., Whipping the cat, when an operative works at a private house by the day,—term amongst tailors and carpenters.
1897. Barrère & Leland, Dict. Slang, To whip the cat is modern working-men’s slang for shirking work and enjoying oneself on Monday.
b. To whip the devil round the post (U.S. around the stump): see DEVIL sb. 22 n.
1786. Belknap Papers, I. (1877), 427. What the Virginians call ‘whipping the devil round a stump.’
1841. Congr. Globe, 7 July, 132/3. Many men in the State Legislatures … have run their constituents so deeply in debt, that now they want to whip the devil around the stump, and get somebody else to tax them.
1887. Japan Mail, in J. M. Dixon, Dict. Idiom. Phr., s.v. Devil, It is asserted … that the devil might be whipped round the Tientsin Convention.
III. To bind round or over. (This group of senses is prob. represented earlier in the compound WHIPCORD, which appears 1318–9.)
17. trans. To overlay (a rope, string, or other object) with cord, thread, or the like wound closely and regularly round and round; to bind round or ‘serve’ (SERVE v.1 54 a) with cord, etc. Also, to bind (cord, etc.) in this way round something.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 524/2. Whyppyn, as sylke womene (K., P. whyppyn or closyn threde in sylke), obvolvo.
1561. Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden), 102. For whippinge the seconde belle rope … ij d.
1581. Styward, Mart. Discipl., I. 44. They must haue … their [bow-]stringes whipped & waxed ouer with glew.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farm, IV. xvi. 512. Then with a silke thred, of the colour of your line, whip and warpe the hooke round about.
1651. T. Barker, Art of Angling (1820), 15. Lay … the poynt of the feather towards the shank of the hook, then whip it three or four time[s] about the hook with the … silk.
1676. Cotton, Angler, II. v. 39. Take a strong small silk … and then whip it twice or thrice about the bare hook.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., i. § 2 (1689), 2. Whale-bone made round & taper, & whip’d with Shoomaker’s Wax, and Silk.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine, To Whip,… to tie a piece of pack-thread, spun-yarn, &c. about the end of a rope, to prevent it from being untwisted.
1770. Luckombe, Hist. Printing, 330. He begin[s] at the opposite … corner of the Plattin, and lashes and whips that.
1836. Ronalds, Fly-Fisher’s Entom., 28. Holding a fine thread well waxed … in one hand, whip a part of it three or four times round the end of the shank of the hook.
1887. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, iv. It was whipped round at intervals … with copper wire.
b. To fasten or ‘seize’ (SEIZE v. 10 b) by binding in this way.
1760. Sir J. Hawkins, Walton’s Angler, 254, note. For whipping on a Hook take the following directions.
1787. T. Best, Angling (ed. 2), 10. Cut about six inches off the top of the rod, and in its place whip on a smooth, round and taper piece of whalebone.
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 21 June, 6/2. The old method of whipping on the wings … is objectionable for wet-fly fishing.
1885. Leno, Boot & Shoemaking, ix. 67. The side linings [of a Wellington] are whipped or hemmed on with either awl or needle.
18. Needlework. † a. ? To trim or ornament with embroidery (obs.). b. To sew over and over, to overcast. c. To draw into gathers, as a frill, by a combination of overcast and running stitch.
a. 1548. [see WHIPPED ppl. a. 1].
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 221. Veluet-breeches,… drawn ouer with the best Spanish Satine, and … curiously ouer whipt with gold twist.
1612. Webster, White Devil, K 2. A Lawyer In a gowne whipt with veluet.
17[?]. Drury, Rival Milliners, I. ii. All the Day We’re forc’d to whip and stitch the Time away.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. II. Aunt Fanny, 61. Whipping the Frill.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlvi. (1856), 425. They have been busy … whipping and stitching the seal-skins with reindeer tendon thread.
† 19. trans. To bind about, wreathe, entwine. Sc. Obs.
c. 1500. Kennedy, Passion of Christ, 8. Haill, in my Hert with Lufe wippit Intern!
1508. Dunbar, Gold. Targe, vii. Thair brycht hairis … In tressis clere, wyppit [Bann. MS. wypit] wyth goldyn thredis.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. vii. 114. To the, Bacchus, scho raisit … Gret lang speris,… Wyth wyne tre branchis wyppit.
[1802. Sibbald, Chron. Scot. Poetry, IV. Gloss., Quhip, Wipp, Wipe, to bind about.]
