DCHP-3

black-snake whip

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a whip having a long, tapering lash or plaited rawhide, often loaded with shot at the tip.

Quotations

1913
[With] the whizzing crack of the young driver's "blacksnake" whip . . . the "mountain mail" was away. . . .
1954
Long braided or shot-loaded black-snake lashes on a short stock for horses, long stock for bulls--were the standard whip equipment, and either bull whacker or horse skinner had to be able to make his whip talk.