whipstick

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"So Priestley, with a sinister glitter in his patient eyes, had reversed his whipstick, pliant end downward, and bent along the ground. He knew the nature of seasoned pine. A sharp jerk, and the whipstick would snap, supplying a nilla-nilla which would make him an over-match for a dozen Folkestones in rotation."

From whip + stick.

whipsticks (plural)

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