6. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk,
fork, or the like.
7. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
[Slang, U. S.]
8. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round
and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; — often with
about, around, or over.
Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
Moxon.
9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by
loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to
whip a ruffle.
In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
Gay.
10. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; — with
into, out, up, off, and the like.
She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
L'Estrange.
He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of
everything he sees.
Walpole.
11. (Naut.) (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. (b) To secure
the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with
small stuff.
12. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion
being that employed in using a whip.
Whipping their rough surface for a trout.
Emerson.
To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt;
hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the
like. — To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov.
Eng.] Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as
itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]
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Whip (?), v. i. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do
something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
With speed from thence he whipped.
Sackville.
Two friends, traveling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a
tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.
L'Estrange.