Meaning & use
whipper
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A person or thing that whips, especially historically one employed to administer corporal punishment.
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In the old text, the whipper stood ready at the town square to carry out the sentence.
The device functions as an automatic whipper for cream in commercial kitchens.
A note on using this word
Now rare outside historical writing, but it survives as the root of 'whippersnapper', a term for an insignificant but presumptuous young person.
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