A whip used in driving a cart, a long heavy horse-whip.
1713. Lond. Gaz., No. 5144/10. Carters are to ride with long Cart Whips.
1748. Newcastle Courant, 1–8 Oct., 2/3. Several Ways were tried to get him in at a Garret Widow, as holding a Bottle and Glass with Liquor, whipping him with a Cart-whip to provoke him, but he took no Notice of either.
1823. Canning, in Ann. Reg. (1824), 129/1. Driving the slaves, by means of a cart-whip.
Hence Cart-whip v., to flog with a cart-whip.
1788. Dibdin, Mus. Tour, liv. 222. They are cart-whipt and treated with much other cruelty.
1792. General Advertiser, 3 March, 2/4. Once I recollect, distinctly to have heard a cart-whipping from St. Kitts to St. Eustatia, over a channel near three leagues wide.
1811. Edin. Rev., XIX. 141. After a cart-whipping … he was carried to a sick-house.
