Whip
A whip is a cord or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for delivering blows to human beings or animals as a means of control or punishment or torture.
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Buggy whip
This is a coach whip used for driving on horses harnessed to a buggy, or small open carriage. Though similar whips are still manufactured for limited purposes, the buggy whip industry as a major economic entity ceased to exist with the introduction of the automobile, and is cited in economics and marketing as an example of an industry ceasing to exist because its market niche, and the need for its product, disappears. In discussions of market regulation, it is often held that the economy would be disadvantaged as a whole if the buggy-whip industry were protected from going out of business by banning the automobile.
Buggy whips are not entirely gone. A resurgence of interest in the international sport of combined driving and historical carriage driving, sports enjoyed by people of all ages, has allowed some buggy whip manufacturers to stay in business, serving this specialty niche market. Foremost among these is a company in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Bullwhip
Main article: Bullwhip
A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather, which was originally used as a farmer's tool for working with livestock.
Camel whip
Cow Whip
- Main article: Cow whip
A Cow Whip (sometimes called a Florida Cow Whip) is a type of singletail whip that was developed for use by cowboys in the state of Florida in the southern United States. It resembles an Australian Stock Whip.
The most obvious differences between a cow whip and a stock whip are: A cow whip is usually braided from nylon cord (often called parachute cord) instead of leather or kangaroo hide, to better withstand the wet conditions in the swampy areas where it was developed. The cow whip does not have the flexible joint that is characteristic of a stock whip. The braided body of the cow whip often fits into a recess in one end of the handle and is often secured with a piece of the center braiding that exits a hole in the side of the handle and is tied around the handle.
Dressage whip
- Main article: Crop
Dressage whip is a true whip, longer than a crop, (up to 43 inches, including lash or popper) for horse training, allowing a rider to touch the mount's side while keeping both hands on the reins.
English Hunting whips
See Dressage whip above
Hunting whip
A hunting whip, is not precisely a horse whip, though it is carried by a mounted rider. It has a stock about the same length as a crop, except its "stock" is stiff, not flexible. On one end of the stock it has a lash that is several feet in length, on the other end it has a hook, which is used to help the rider open and close gates while out fox hunting. The hunting whip is not intended to be used on the horse, but rather the lash is there to remind the hounds to stay away from the horse's hooves, and it can also be used as a communication device to the hounds.
Lunge whip
The lunge whip for training horses is light in weight, balanced and about twenty feet long. The front section or sections are flexible and resilient to aid the whipping action of the whip. A long cord lash of synthetic braided non-tangling fiber such as polyester or polyamide fiber is attached by a swivel to the front end of the main body and bears a popper cord at its front end. The popper cord is preferably of sisal twine and has a front end bearing a popper tassel for audibly signaling a horse during training. The whip main body bears a pair of spaced hooks for use as cord lash winders when the whip is collapsed. The cord lash may be connected to a loop in a wire wrapped around the front end of the main body and covered with a heat shrunk sleeve. Alternatively, the front end of the main body can be embedded in a cavity in the cord lash and the assembly covered by the heat shrunk sleeve. The whip is simple, efficient, easy to handle and inexpensive.
Signal whip
Signal whips (Signalwhips) are a type of single-tailed whip, originally designed to control dog teams. A signal whip usually measures between 3 and 4 feet in length.
Both signal whips and snake whips are usually shot loaded by braiding the body of the whip over a tapered bag containing weight (often shotgun shot). These whips may also be constructed without loading but it is rarely seen.
The most obvious difference between a snake whip and a signal whip is: a snake whip has a fall (a narrow, flexible, un-braided strip of leather) between the body of the whip and the cracker, and a signal whip has the cracker braided into the body of the whip.
Single-tail whip
- Main article: Single tail
A single-tail whip is any type of whip that has only a single tail, unlike, for example, a flogger, martinet or cat-o'-nine tails, which are all types of multi-tail whips.
A single-tail whip may have a stiff (e.g. wooden or metal) handle, or may be without a handle if its fat end is stiff enough by itself to be used like a handle.
Sjambok
- Main article: Sjambok
The sjambok or litupa is the traditional heavy leather whip of South Africa, sometimes seen as synonymous with apartheid but actually much older and still used outside the official judiciary. It is made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide, or possibly from the penis of either species.
Snake whips
- Main article: Snake whip
Snake whips (Snakewhips) are a type of single-tailed whip. The name snake whip is derived from the fact that this type of whip has no handle inside and so can be curled up into a small circle which resembles a coiled snake. They were once commonly carried in the saddlebag by cowboys of the old west. A full sized snake whip is usually at least 4 feet in length (excluding the fall and cracker at the tip of the whip) and around one inch in diameter at the butt of the whip.
A pocket snake whip can be curled up small enough to fit into a large pocket, and ranges in size from 4 feet to 6 feet in length. The pocket snake whip is primarily a whip for occasional use, such as in loading cattle. Both of these types of snake whips are made with a leather shot bag running approximately three quarters of the length of the whip.
Blacksnakes are the traditional whips used in Montana and Wyoming. The blacksnake has a heavy shot load extending from the butt well down the thong, and the whip is flexible right to the butt, ranges in size from 6 feet to 12 feet in length.
Both signal whips and snake whips are usually 'shot loaded' by braiding the body of the whip over a tapered bag containing weight (often shotgun shot). These whips may also be constructed without loading but it is rarely seen.
The most obvious difference between a snake whip and a signal whip is: a snake whip has a fall (a narrow, flexible, un-braided strip of leather) between the body of the whip and the cracker, and a signal whip has the cracker braided into the body of the whip.
Stock whip
- Main article: Stock Whip
A Stock whip (often called a 'Stockwhip' or 'Australian Stock Whip') is a type of singletail whip, used by Australian stockmen (ranchers). Its form originated in the English hunting whip, but it has since become a distinct type of whip. Similar to an American bullwhip in body composition, its main difference is in handle construction. Unlike a bullwhip's imbedded handle, the stock whip handle is not fitted inside of the thong and is usually longer. A stock whip's handle is connected to the thong by a joint typically made of a few strands of thick leather. This allows the whip to hang across a stockman's arm when not being used. The handles are normally longer than those of a bullwhip, being between 12 and 18 inches in length. Stock whips are also almost exclusively made from tanned kangaroo-hide.
See also [ How to Make Whips ]
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