Note 190 — ACT IV.[188]
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Or whipstock. "Probably the handle of a whip, round which a strap of leather is usually twisted, and is sometimes put for the whip itself." So in "Pericles," ii.—
"For by his rusty outside he appears To have practised more the whipstock than the lance."
And in Ben Jonson's "New Inn," iii. 1, Pierce says, in reply to Trundle, "Let him go, base whipstock." Other examples are in Mr Steevens's note on "Twelfth Night," ii. 3.