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Whipper   Listen
noun
Whipper  n.  
1.
One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
2.
One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold. (Eng.)
3.
(Spinning) A kind of simple willow.





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"Whipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pitt a look of arch triumph, which caused that diplomatist almost to choke with envy. Much as he had ingratiated himself with his aunt, she had never yet invited him to stay under her roof, and here was a young whipper-snapper, who at first ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... visit it"- a tree (an oak) which Stands alone near this place about 2 miles off in the open prarie which has with Stood the fire they pay Great respect to, make Holes and tie Strings thro the Skins of their necks and around this tree to make them brave (all this is the information of Too ne is a whipper will) the Chief of the Ricares who accompanied us to the Mandins, at 2 miles (2) passed the 2nd Villages of the Manden, which was in existance at the Same time with the 1st this village is at the foot ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... I am the Yellow-back. I have returned to meet a man you all know—Jacques Dupont. He is a monkey-man—a whipper of boys, a stealer of women, a cheat, a coward, a thing so foul the crows will not touch ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... and claimed the protection of her captain. The vessel could not sail for a few days, which gave his pursuers an opportunity of overtaking him. They got to know where he was, and proceeded to demand that he should be given up. They relied, as many other whipper-snappers do, on the importance of their official position and the glitter of their elaborate uniform to strike awe and terror into the soul of the British captain! They soon found out what a mistake they had made. "Gentlemen," said the resolute commander, "the person whom you call your prisoner ...
— Windjammers and Sea Tramps • Walter Runciman
... himself, with a sneer: "The man prates about that whipper-snapper of a gunner nearly as much as about my splendid firing. And so that's the celebrated ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein


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