Definitions for whipper
whip·per

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. switcher, whippernoun

   a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip

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1. whippernoun

   Agent noun of whip; a person or thing that whips.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whippernoun

   One who punishes with whipping.

   Etymology: from whip.

   Love is meerly a madness, and deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished is, that the whippers are in love too. William Shakespeare.

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1. whipper

   This glossary of climbing terms is a list of definitions of terms and jargon related to rock climbing and mountaineering. The specific terms used can vary considerably between different English-speaking countries; many of the phrases described here are particular to the United States and the United Kingdom.

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1. Whippernoun

   one who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping

2. Whippernoun

   one who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold

3. Whippernoun

   a kind of simple willow

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1. Whipper

   In rock climbing, a whipper is an especially hard or dynamic fall where the rope is weighed by a significant load. A fall is considered hard when the climber falls beyond at least one piece of protection, which in trad climbing would mean the last placed cam or nut and in sport climbing would be the last successfully clipped quickdraw. The term whipper comes from the whipping motion a climber will take if an unskilled belayer cuts the fall short, limiting the dynamic stretching nature of the rope and causing a pendulum effect. It has become synonymous, however, with a hard fall, regardless of whether the pendulum effect is achieved or not. Whippers can be very dramatic falls, often for some distance. The distance of a whipper is determined by a number of factors, including rope stretch, any slack in the rope before the climber is ejected, and discrepancies in the relative weights between the climber and the belayer. When a whipper is particularly long and the load great, a belayer will be lifted from the ground, occasionally all the way up to the first piece of protection or bolt. Depending on how far up the route the climber has gone, the climber may fall far enough to meet the belayer at an even level or even pass the belayer on the way down. This effect is known as teabagging in the rock climbing community, and is most common when a climber is significantly heavier than their belayer, but can happen in various other circumstances as well.

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1. prewhip

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of whipper in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of whipper in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=whipper
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Whipper
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=whipper
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipper
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whipper
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=whipper