whipping
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Definitions ofwhipping
- To hit with a whip.
Example: "The rider whipped the horse."
- (by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
Example: "I whipped her with a newspaper."
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
Example: "to whip eggs or cream"
- To urge into action or obedience.
Example: "He whipped the department into shape."
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
Example: "to whip a ruffle"
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
Example: "He whipped the ball at me."
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
Example: "The pennants whipped in the wind."
- To move very fast.
Example: "The wind whipped through the valley."
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
Example: "to whip wheat"
- The punishment of being whipped.
- A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
- A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
- A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
- (whipping) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).
- The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
Synonyms: whipstitching
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