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plural whipcrackers
One who cracks a whip. quotations examples
The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers. The third, to twenty-four spearmen and twelve whipcrackers. No other headmen are allowed the honour of having whipcrackers.
1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65