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Meanings of riding crop in English

A short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates.

Synonyms
Examples for "hunting crop"
Examples for "hunting crop"
1
The hunting crop that he had brought from her father's house lay on the table with Jerry's banjo.
The Odds / And Other Stories
2
Our party is complete, said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
However, this hunting crop is a good weapon; but I don't suppose they will show fight, even if anyone is with him.
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
4
The Squire had taken off his boots before he lay down, and, holding his heavy hunting crop in his hand, he went quietly upstairs.
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
5
"She will thrash thee, Jack, as she thrashed her own father with his hunting crop when she was but five years old," another cried.
His Grace of Osmonde / Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Lif...
Usage of riding crop in English
1
By which I mean he was prodding me with a riding crop.
The Wise Man’s Fear
2
I took my cap off, and the King tipped his riding crop.
The Guardian
3
The riding crop switched the air like the tail of an angry cat.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
4
Evelyn scorned the hospitable suggestion and reached for her gloves and riding crop.
We Three
5
He tapped me playfully on the helmet with his riding crop.
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
6
He enters carrying his baton under his right arm, like a riding crop.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
7
The whip was small, a thin riding crop that barely broke the skin.
Wench: a novel
8
With his riding crop he smacked one of the blond heads.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
9
One courtier, dressed in rich black, smacked dawdling gawpers with his riding crop.
Seraphina
10
He took the riding crop forcibly out of her hands.
The Trumpeter Swan
11
Laughing, I would apply a riding crop to his behind.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
12
His fists were propped on his hips, a riding crop dangling casually from one.
The irish devil
13
The cowboy, the phony bitch, was tickling an elegant guest with his riding crop.
A Confederacy of Dunces
14
A riding crop dangled from one fine, aristocratic hand.
Outlander
15
Her eyes gloomed and she slashed her skirt savagely with the riding crop she held.
The Black Pearl
16
Her arm was already uplifted, riding crop in hand.
The Black Pearl
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