Definition of "horsewhips" [horsewhips]

• Plural form of horsewhip. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horsewhip. (verb)

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• "In the rest of the Spanish speaking New World, the brand name had fathers reaching for their horsewhips, machetes, and guns."
• "The southern slaveholding judges and lawyers argued for a system that enslaved human beings, bought and sold them as chattels, and tortured them with horsewhips, and sought to expand that system into the free territories."
• "Chiltern protested, and declared that horsewhips could not under any circumstances be efficacious."