Word.ws English Dictionary

whip hand

whip hand noun: the hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.

Noun

whip hand (plural whip hands)

  1. The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.
  2. (idiomatic) An advantage over another; the dominant position.
    • “Aye, you may abuse me as you please,” said the good-natured old lady, “you have taken Charlotte off my hands, and cannot give her back again. So there I have the whip hand of you.”1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    • Of course I was a fool. My father has the whip hand of me, because he has money and I have none, and it was simply kicking against the pricks to speak as I did.1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, page 271

whip hand meaning in Bengali

whip hand in Bengali

অন্যের ওপর সুবিধা, প্রভাবশালী অবস্থান

Forms of whip hand

pluralwhip hands
alternative formwhip-hand

Questions about whip hand

What does whip hand mean?
Whip hand means the hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.
What is whip hand in Bengali?
Whip hand in Bengali is অন্যের ওপর সুবিধা, প্রভাবশালী অবস্থান. See Whip hand meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is whip hand?
Whip hand is a noun.
What is the plural of whip hand?
The plural of whip hand is whip hands.

Words near whip hand in the dictionary

  1. whip gin
  2. whip gins
  3. whip graft
  4. whip grafting
  5. whip grafts
  6. whip hand
  7. whip hands
  8. whip in
  9. whip into shape
  10. whip it on
  11. whip kick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whip hand (page history and authors); whip hand (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-whip hand.ogg.

Cite this entry: “whip hand.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whip_hand. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.