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Quhip, Quheip, v. Also: quhyp, whip; quhup; wheip, whep. [ME and e.m.E. hwippen (a1300), whip (Chaucer), whype (Cath. Angl.), var., with wh for w (perh. echoic) of ME wip, Wip v.: cf. also Quhip n.]

1. tr. To cut off (of) (a person's hand) with a sudden or rapid stroke of a weapon. 1513 Doug. x vii 128.
With hys brycht brand his rycht hand he of quhyppyt [L. deripit]

2. tr. To beat with, or as with, a whip; to scourge, flog.Also with adverbial complements.(1) a1568 Scott iv 93.
The nycest to ressave Vpoun the nynnis will nip it; The quhytliest will quhip it [ed. quhipit, rh. grip it, hippit] 1566–7 Edinb. B. Rec. III 228.
Sic barnis … playand in the said kirk salbe imprisonit … efter that thay be quhippit with wandis 1588 King Cat. App. 39.
And Thow quhippes that sone quhome Thow receaues. By quhilk vordes certanlie albeit the quhipping vande boast, ȝit ane fatherly loue is signified 1604-31 Craig ii 93.
Infants poore anone He taught and quhipt 1624 Perth Kirk S. MS 17 June.
Jamey Houp [to] be tayne to the grammer scole to be quhippit for his fault 1693 Banff Ann. I 97.
Given the hangmens [sic] befor that he wes whipped. … Given him for whipping Alester his predicessor(b) 1639 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 113.
James Dauidson … wes thairfoir ordanit … to be quheipet at the staik(c) ?1644 Soc. Ant. IV 107.
Now Phoebus whept his horse with al his might(2) 1656 Elgin Rec. II 287.
The magistrats ordained the hangman to wheip John Anderson [etc.] … out of the town 1709 Ch. in Orkney 99.
[For not attending church he is to be] whept about the kirk by the hand of the officer

b. fig. To afflict; to cause to suffer; to ‘castigate’. Only absol. — 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xli 104.
Luke gif God hes begun to quhup [: vp, cup, sup]

3. transf. To defeat, vanquish. 1571 Sat. P. xxvi 100.
Ȝe neid na ma bot Gedionis thre hunder To quhip your fais