Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sports A person who assists the huntsman in handling a pack of hounds in foxhunting.
- noun The whip in a legislative body.
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- noun A
huntsman who keeps thehounds fromwandering , andwhips them in, if necessary, to thechase . - noun politics One who
enforces thediscipline of aparty , and urges theattendance andsupport of themembers on all necessary occasions.
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Examples
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It ended prematurely when one whipper-in and horse tumbled over a ridge, though neither was injured.
More British Than Britain Joshua Robinson 2011
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One longtime fox hunter, Lewis Sterler, served as a whipper-in from a car with the help of a radio.
More British Than Britain Joshua Robinson 2011
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It was the best Devil I ever saw, and riding thus like a whipper-in after the parsons, had a strange and ridiculous appearance.
Letter 292 2009
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They are their own fanfare, their own roll on the kettle-drums, their own whipper-in.
Another Voice 2009
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The analogy is exact: it is moderately rare for the whipper-in to whip a hound.
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The sportsman toils like his gamekeeper, the master of the pack takes as severe exercise as his whipper-in, the statesman or politician drudges more than the professional lawyer; and, to come to my own case, the volunteer author subjects himself to the risk of painful criticism, and the assured certainty of mental and manual labour, just as completely as his needy brother, whose necessities compel him to assume the pen.
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“Here come the ladies,” said the second whipper-in.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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This man, the first whipper-in, was accompanied by two thorough-bred dogs, — fox-hounds, white, with liver spots, long in the leg, fine in the muzzle, with slender heads, and little ears at their crests.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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