hunting-crop

English

Alternative forms

• hunting crop

Noun

hunting-crop (plural hunting-crops)

1. A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 173

     Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

     "Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."

Translations

a hunting whip

• Irish: fuip fiaigh f
• Russian: охо́тничий хлы́ст m (oxótničij xlýst)

References

Hunting whips and crops: https://web.archive.org/web/20230601043508/https://sportingcollection.com/whips/hunting-whips.html