Pl. -men. Now rare. [f. WHIP sb. 1.] A man who wields a whip; a driver of horses; dial. a carter. Hence Whipmanship, the character or skill of a ‘whipman,’ the art of driving.
1797. Sporting Mag., IX. 50. The school of whipmanship, for the young nobility and gentry. Ibid., X. 288. No sooner were the whipmen passed than the void part was filled.
a. 1825. Duff, Poems, Old Horse 84 (Jam.). Routhless whipmen, scant o’ grace.
1834. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. No. 2. 45. The whip-men (carters) bought it.
