whipping

Pluralwhippings

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A punishment where someone is hit hard with a whip.

   The sailor received a whipping for stealing food from the galley.

   Long ago, a public whipping was a common way to punish thieves.

   Similarflogging, lashing, beating, thrashing

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of whip. Use this form for the action as it is happening.

   She is whipping the cream until it turns thick.

   The wind was whipping the flags back and forth.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A very big loss in a game or contest.

   Our team got a real whipping in the final.

   We took a bad whipping and lost by thirty points.

   Similarthrashing, drubbing, hammering, trouncing, beating

4. 4
   noununcountable

   The fast beating of cream so it fills with air and turns thick and fluffy.

   Like beating air into the cream until it becomes soft like a cloud.

   Good whipping gives the cream a soft, fluffy texture.

   The recipe needs a lot of whipping to get stiff peaks.

   Similarwhisking, beating

5. 5
   nouncountable

   A cord or thread used to tie or wrap tightly around something.

   She wrapped a tight whipping around the loose ends.

   The handle was held together with a strong whipping of cord.

   Similarbinding, lashing

6. 6
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Cord wound tightly around the cut end of a rope so it does not come apart.

   Like wrapping tape around the tip of a shoelace so it does not come apart.

   The sailor added a whipping to the frayed rope end.

   A good whipping keeps the rope from coming undone.

   Similarbinding

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7. 7
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A way of sewing single book pages together by looping thread over their edges.

   Like stitching the edges of loose sheets of paper together with thread.

   The old pages were joined with careful whipping along one edge.

   Whipping holds loose pages together without folding them.

   Similarwhipstitching

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