An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping.

Roget 268: traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.    tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator^†, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling^†; vagrant, scatterling^†, landloper^†, waifs and estrays^†, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab^†, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly^†; globegirdler^†, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Austral.]; trecker^†, trekker, zingano^†, zingaro^†.    runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel^†, comet.    pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.    rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker.    driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy^†, carter, wagoner, drayman^†; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier^†, vetturino^†, condottiere^†; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah^†, gari-wala^†, hackman, syce^†, truckman^†.    ... show more

Roget 694: director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller.    superintendent, supervisor, straw boss; intendant; overseer, overlooker^†; supercargo^†, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile^†; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master etc. 745; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman^†, precentor^†, bellwether, agitator; caporal^†, choregus^†, collector, file leader, flugelman^†, linkboy^†.    guiding star etc. (guidance) 693; adviser etc. 695; guide etc. (information) 527; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate^†; wire-puller.    driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino^†, muleteer, arriero^†, teamster; whipper in.    head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain etc. (master) 745; superior; mayor etc. (civil authority) 745; vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch^†.    officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist^†, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority etc. 745.    statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist^†, statemonger^†; Minos, Draco; arbiter etc. (judge) 967; boss [U.S.], political dictator.    board etc. (council) 696.    secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar etc. (deputy) 759; steward, factor; agent etc. 758; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve^†; factotum, major-domo^†, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.    ... show more

Roget 615: motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.    reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile [Lat.], keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con, reason why; secret motive, arriere pensee [Fr.]; intention etc. 620.    inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation^†, allective^†; temptation, enticement, agacerie^†, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell etc. 993; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.    persuasibility^†, persuasibleness^†; attractability^†; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization^†.    influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation etc. (excitation of feeling) 824; inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice etc. 695; solicitation etc. (request) 765; lobbyism; pull [Slang].    incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus^†, rowel, provocative, whet, dram.    bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.    prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor^†; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.    ... show more

Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.    miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology^†.    crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness.    clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712.    volley, shower, storm, cloud.    group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31.    collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.    ... show more

Dutch: zweep

A legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline.

synonym: party whip.

A dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit.

Dutch: kloppen
Polish: pianka

golf The flexibility of the shaft of a golf club.

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object:
— The whip raised a red welt.

synonyms: lash, whiplash.

Roget 975: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan^†, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote^†, blacksnake^†, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote^†, kurbash^†, quirt, rawhide, sjambok^†; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.    whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end.    pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool^†, ducking stool; brank^†; trebuchet^†, trebuket^†.    [instruments of torture: list], triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture.    treadmill, crank, galleys.    scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate^†.    house of correction etc. (prison) 752.    goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner^†; lyncher; hangman; headsman^†; Jack Ketch.    ... show more

Dutch: zweepslag
Polish: bykowiec

Beat severely with a whip or rod.

synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt.

Roget 716: attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge, impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.    assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the aggressor; strike the first blow, draw first blood, throw the first stone at; lift a hand against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against, march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight.    strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.    close with, come to close quarters; bring to bay.    ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail, go at hammer and tongs.    let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at, hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home; drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root of.    lay about one, run amuck.    aim at, draw a bead on [U.S.].    fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, pour a broadside into; fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine.    throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate^†, pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock beset [U.S.], besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.    cut and thrust, bayonet, butt; kick, strike etc. (impulse) 276; whip etc. (punish) 972.    [attack verbally] assail, impugn; malign (detract) 934.    bomb, rocket, blast.    ... show more

Roget 684: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash etc. n.; hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry^†, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush etc. (violence) 173; express.    bestir oneself etc. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way.    be precipitate etc. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry etc. n.; have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time.    quicken etc. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.    ... show more

Roget 615: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse etc. n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.    stimulate etc. (excite) 824; spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate; act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.    influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby.    persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.    tempt, seduce, overpersuade^†, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole etc. (deceive) 545.    tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.    enforce, force; impel etc. (push) 276; propel etc. 284; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag etc. 285; exhort; advise etc. 695; call upon &c.; press etc. (request) 765; advocate.    set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance.    be persuaded &c.; yield to temptation, come round; concede etc. (consent) 762; obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent, follow the dictates of; act on principle.    ... show more

Roget 276: give an impetus etc. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin [Fr.]; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle^†, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug [Slang].    strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk^†; kick, calcitrate^†; butt, strike at etc. (attack) 716; whip etc. (punish) 972.    come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.    throw etc. (propel) 284.    ... show more

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.    strike etc. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.    tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^†; masthead, keelhaul.    execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.    torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.    banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench^†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.    suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.    be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c.; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.    ... show more

Dutch: geselen

Defeat thoroughly.

synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, worst.

Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.

Strike as if by whipping:
— The curtain whipped her face.

synonym: lash.

Dutch: striemen

Whip with or as if with a wire whisk.

synonym: whisk.

Roget 315: be agitated &c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire^†, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort [U.S.]; squirm.    throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.    ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.    toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.    agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate^†.    ... show more

Subject to harsh criticism.

synonyms: blister, scald.