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Whipping
- verb - a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
- a sound defeat
- beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
- smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"
- strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"
- subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
- the act of overcoming or outdoing
- thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash; "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
- whip with or as if with a wire whisk; "whisk the eggs"
Whipsawn
- verb - saw with a whipsaw
- victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
Whipsaws
- noun - a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people
- saw with a whipsaw
- victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
Whipster
- - A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
Whiptail
- noun - any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards
Whipworm
- - A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.
Whirlbat
- - Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
Whirlers
- noun - a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling
- a revolving mechanism
Whirling
- verb - cause to spin; "spin a coin"
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"