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riding crop

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables
rid-ing crop
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.

Etymology

From riding' + 'crop *In the 1500s, a crop (or croppe) came to mean the "top" of something with a handle. By the 1800s, it came to mean the handled object itself; for instance, in equestrianism, it would mean a whip. It came to mean a short horsewhip that could, traditionally, in British foxhunting, also open doors without dismounting by the 1860s.

Inflected Forms

riding crops (plural)

Synonyms

hunting crop

Questions

What does riding crop mean?
A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.
Where does riding crop come from?
From riding' + 'crop *In the 1500s, a crop (or croppe) came to mean the "top" of something with a handle. By the 1800s, it came to mean the handled object itself; for instance, in equestrianism, it would mean a whip. It came to mean a short horsewhip that could, traditionally, in British foxhunting, also open doors without dismounting by the 1860s.

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