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Quhip, n. Also: quhyp(e, quhipe, qwhipe; qwype; whipp(e, whip(e, whupe. [ME and e.m.E. quippe, wippe (c1325), whippe (Chaucer), qwyp (c1450), appar. f. Quhip v.; cf. also (M)LG wip(pe quick movement, = OHG wipph (MHG wipf, wif) id., Fris. wip(p, Dan. hvip leap, skip.]

1. A whip.Also in fig. context.(a) 1456 Hay II 46/28.
The quhip is gevyn to the knycht in his hand quhen he is on horse a1500 Rauf C. 385. 1488 Treas. Acc. I 85. c1500 Rowll Cursing 110 (B).
And vthiris devillis thair … Sum with quhippis of leddroun tardis c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) xliii 58 (see Lay v.¹ 21 (1)). c1500 Makc. MS 34/38.
Quhow Iowis it dang With knoppis of quhippis [Arundel MS knoppit quhippis] & schurges lang 1513 Doug. vii vi 88.
As sum tyme sclentys the round tap of tre, Hyt with the twynyt quhip dois quhirl … Scho smyttyn with the tawys dois rebound Ib. xii Prol. 30.
Quhyp a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. cx 34.
Mony hes quhippis now in thair hand That wont to haue bayth iak and speir 1587 Carmichael Etym. 6.
Verber, a quhip 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Scutica, flagellum: a whippe 1629 Boyd Last B. 255.
Fire, chaines, rackes, and lashing whippes, cannot expresse the shadow of one infernall tortoure(b) c1475 Wall. vi 457.
Qwhipe a1500 Bk. Chess 1357.
This teileman has … A wand or quhipe … To call his cattell to thair pastur c1638 Descr. Orchad. 31 in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 324.
Ther pleuche is drawen by foure beastis … the caller gangis befor the beastis backward with a whipe(c) 1597 Melvill 432.
Into thy youthe, rejose to tholl the whupe [: upe]fig. a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxix 59.
The quhippis of the Lord felinge Becaus we daylie brak His law

b. attrib. and comb. 1586 Burntisland B. Ct. fol. 53b (5 April).
Williame Phine quhipmane 1618 Edinb. Marr. 11.
James Stevin, whipman 1631 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. IV 349. — 1574 Glasgow B. Rec. (M.C.) 19.
For trublance done … in stryking of hir … with ane rung and quhip schaft — 1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 60.
For thre curpellis … , For thre quhiptawes, iii s. 1617 Ib. 74.
For 12 quhip tawes and tua taillis to girthisfig. Urquhart Rabelais ii xxvii.
These little ends of men and dandiprats, whom in Scotland they call whiphandles

2. A blow, stroke or lash with, or as with, a whip. c1420 Wynt. iii 294.
And [Samson] gat a chek bane off ane as … And … leyt abowt hym, quhype for quhype [: grype, C. qwype, W. quhip] 1578 Second Bk. Disc. in Melvill 114.
The servand that knaws the wil of his maister and does it nocht salbe beatin with manie whipps 1652 Nicoll Diary 100.
Quhair ather of thame resavit threttie nyne quhipes upone thair naiked bakes and shoulderis

b. To get one's quhippis, to get ane quhip, to receive punishment or chastisement. — 1567 Sat. P. v 38.
It war weill wairit he gat his quhippis [: grippis] 1624 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 145.
Ȝe said that Hew Peace was ane hauey hand vpoun ȝow and that he was getting ane quhip for it … he being diseasit of ane byll

3. a. A sharp movement, a jerk. b. A sudden gust (of wind). a1568 Bann. MS 141b/53.
Ȝour courtly fukking garis me fling. … Sen ȝe stummer nocht for my skippis … I byd a quasill of ȝour quhippis a1578 Pitsc. I 259/7.
This man wanischit away … as he had bene … ane quhipe of the whirle wind