cat-o'-nine-tails, cat - a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"

cowhide - a heavy flexible whip made of braided cowhide

crop - the stock or handle of a whip

horsewhip - a whip for controlling horses

instrument - a device that requires skill for proper use

knout - a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners

thong, lash - leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

quirt - whip with a leather thong at the end

hunting crop, riding crop - a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates

flagellum, scourge - a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)

stock - the handle end of some implements or tools; "he grabbed the cue by the stock"

strap - whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging

legislator - someone who makes or enacts laws

afters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal

prune whip - dessert made of prune puree and whipped cream

golf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

flexibility, flexibleness - the property of being flexible

blow - a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

flagellate, scourge - whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"

horsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horses

switch - flog with or as if with a flexible rod

cowhide - flog with a cowhide

cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails

birch - whip with a birch twig

beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

jactitate, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, thrash, convulse, toss, slash - move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

strike - deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"

urticate - whip with or as with nettles

cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"

scramble, beat - stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"

whip up, whomp up - prepare or cook quickly or hastily

lash out, attack, snipe, assail, assault, round - attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"