subs. (old).—1.  A whip; cf., FLOG. GROSE gives the word as cant. Fr., un bouis.

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  1789.  G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, p. 173, s.v.

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  2.  (theatrical).—A mop (i.e., a bunch of slips of cloth on a handle) used in the painting room to whisk the charcoal dust from a sketch.

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