whipper-in
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
Example Sentences
- "“[A]n' it was surprisin' to hear him rattle away The Fox Hunt; you'd raaly think you hard the hounds givin' tongue, an' the tarriers yelpin' always behind, an' the huntsman an' the whippers-in cheerin' or correctin' the dogs; it was, in short, the very nixt thing to seein' the hunt itself.”"
- "“[…] I shall take to hunting a pack of hounds myself after this.” “Do, my dear, and I'll be your whipper-in. I wonder whether Mrs. Proudie would join us.”"
- "The other servant was an old man, who had been whipper-in to a baronet in the next county, and knew as much of the ways of wild animals as Burton did of those of his horses; […]"
- "Now the clerk […] saw the hunting man pass, and presently saw lots more of ’em, noblemen and gentry, and then he saw the hounds, the huntsman, Jim Treadhedge, the whipper-in, and I don’t know who besides."
- "He heard the chaunting voices of huntsman and whippers-in; the noises of motor-cars moving slowly along the hard-rutted trackway, the old canal-bed, above the right bank of the river;"
Etymology
From whipper + in.