quirt
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /kwɜːt/
  • (America) IPA: /kwɚt/
Noun

quirt (plural quirts)

  1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
    • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
      He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.
    • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:
      He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.
    • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter I:
      […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
    • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin (2001), page 96:
      She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
      He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.
Translations
  • Russian: арапник
Verb

quirt (quirts, present participle quirting; past and past participle quirted)

  1. To strike with a quirt.
Synonyms


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