A whip. See quotation. 1853.
1851. The young hunter laid his quirt to the flanks of the mustang, and started at full gallop along the Apaché trail.—Mayne Reid, ‘The Scalp Hunters,’ p. 189. (N.E.D.)
1853. His enemy grinning in his face with wolfish triumph; the “quirt,” with its long, heavy lash of knotted raw-hide, in his hand.—C. W. Webber, ‘Tales of the Southern Border,’ p. 23 (Phila.).
*** See also Appendix XXIV.
