Word Meanings - WHIPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of simple willow. (more info) 1. One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping. 2. One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.

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• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• TACKLE
  The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle , anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun tackle, the apparatus
• WHIPPING
  a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• WILLOW-WORT
  Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
• MERCHANDISER
  A trader. Bunyan.
• WHIPPLETREE
  The cornel tree. Chaucer. (more info) 1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree.
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• WILLOWISH
  Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
• WILLOWED
  Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
• SIMPLE-MINDED
  Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• WHIPSTOCK
  The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
• WHIPPER
  A kind of simple willow. (more info) 1. One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping. 2. One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
• MERCHANDISE
  1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser. 2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• WHIPSTICK
  Whip handle; whipstock.
• WHIPSTAFF
  A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.
• WILLOWY
  1. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. 2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
• OFFICER
  1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall. 2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
• UNTACKLE
  To unbitch; to unharness. Tusser.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• WATER WILLOW
  An American aquatic plant with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
• COAL-WHIPPER
  One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. Dickens.
• ILLEGALNESS
  Illegality, unlawfulness.
• SIMPLE
  simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
• ILLEGALITY
  The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.