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hunting-crop

hunting-crop noun: a hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.

Noun

hunting-crop (plural hunting-crops)

  1. A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
    • Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 173
    • "Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19

Forms of hunting-crop

pluralhunting-crops
alternative formhunting crop

Questions about hunting-crop

What does hunting-crop mean?
Hunting-crop means a hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
What part of speech is hunting-crop?
Hunting-crop is a noun.
What is the plural of hunting-crop?
The plural of hunting-crop is hunting-crops.

Words near hunting-crop in the dictionary

  1. hunting up
  2. hunting where the ducks are
  3. hunting where the ducks were
  4. hunting whip
  5. hunting whips
  6. hunting-crop
  7. hunting-crops
  8. hunting-horn
  9. hunting-horns
  10. Huntingdale
  11. Huntingdon

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