different between australian vs stockwhip

Friulian

Adjective

australian

1. Australian

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [awst?a?lja]

Adjective

australian m (feminine singular australiana, masculine plural australians, feminine plural australianas)

1. Australian

Related terms

• Austràlia

Romanian

Etymology

Australia +? -an, after French australien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.us.tra.li?an/

Adjective

australian m or n (feminine singular australian?, masculine plural australieni, feminine and neuter plural australiene)

1. Australian

Declension

Noun

australian m (plural australieni, feminine equivalent australian? or australianc?)

1. Australian

Declension

English

Etymology

stock +? whip

Noun

stockwhip (plural stockwhips)

1. An Australian whip made of a long, tapered length of flexible, plaited leather with a stiff handle, used when mustering cattle.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 80, [1]

     […] Mrs. Pansy McLash, the keeper of the Siding House, was flogging a herd of goats from her garden. The goats surged on to the railway, intent on escaping the stockwhip whistling behind, and Mrs. McLash went after them, intent on teaching them the lesson of their lives.

Hypernyms

• whip

Verb

stockwhip (third-person singular simple present stockwhips, present participle stockwhipping, simple past and past participle stockwhipped)

1. (transitive) To use such a whip.

Further reading

• stockwhip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• whipstock