hunting-crop

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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."

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

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