quirt
- n whip with a leather thong at the end
- His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt.
- Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt.
- For the moment laying aside the loaded knouts with which he has scourged Main Street, Babbitt and the medical profession, Castigator Lewis now swings a cutting quirt upon .