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whip hand

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noun

the hand that holds the whip, in driving.

an advantageous or controlling position: She had the whip hand throughout the debate.

Origin of whip hand

First recorded in 1670–80

Words nearby whip hand

whinstone, whiny, whio, whip, whip graft, whip hand, whip in, whip roll, whip scorpion, whip snake, whip up

Example sentences from the Web for whip hand

We hate him badly, but he has the whip-hand of us, and so we have to do the tame trot for him.

Rosa Mundi and Other Stories |Ethel M. Dell
He was looking toward the shack, and he raised his whip-hand menacingly.

The Plow-Woman |Eleanor Gates
I am not speaking of these days of labor scarcity; it takes no great moral quality to be independent when you have the whip-hand.

Dennison Grant |Robert Stead
What a miserable fear that he would lose the whip-hand of a fool's passion he was not even prepared to admit the existence of!

It Never Can Happen Again |William De Morgan

And Bilton was not accustomed to let anybody have the whip-hand of him.

The Relentless City |Edward Frederic Benson

British Dictionary definitions for whip hand

whip hand

noun the whip hand

(in driving horses) the hand holding the whip

advantage or dominating position