They were encouraged to 'heel' or bite the fetlocks of the stubborn, half-wild cattle, in a way which bustled them along as crack or cut of stockwhip could never effect.
Even fat cattle know when the stockwhip is absent.
Had he but a stockwhip or lasso he could wind either round one of the long necks so invitingly stretched.
I slacken pace for an instant, and as I do so, drop the twelve foot stockwhip on to him with a right and left, which sends him right up among the tail cattle.
Swinging his twelve-foot stockwhip and yelling like a Sioux Indian, he forces half-a-dozen bullocks into the foaming water.
They scatter off like flying spray Across the mountain's brow; And dashing down the rugged range We hear the stockwhip crack, Good faith, it is a welcome change To bring such cattle back.
Then came the sound of the herded beasts being driven to the yard at sundown and, by-and-by, of Joe Casey's stockwhip as he got up the milkers.
McKeith carried his coiled stockwhip in the hand which held Wombo.
The stockwhip had so encircled his legs as to prevent the free use of them, besides which the shock of the whole accident had to an extent numbed his senses.
The cheap and reliable rider saved himself by the mane; but he let the stockwhip go at that.
The hand holding the stockwhip stirred threateningly, and the hymn was almost lost in the agitation of the worshippers.
He had heard much and had answered nothing; and now here he was at chapel and evidently bent on mischief, for the stockwhip was ominous.
He was right among the horses as they climbed the further hill, And the watchers on the mountain standing mute, Saw him ply the stockwhip fiercely, he was right among them still, As he raced across the clearing in pursuit.
But the man from Snowy River let the pony have his head, And he swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer, And he raced him down the mountain like a torrent down its bed, While the others stood and watched in very fear.
Then they halted for a moment, while he swung the dreaded lash, But they saw their well-loved mountain full in view, And they charged beneath the stockwhip with a sharp and sudden dash, And off into the mountain scrub they flew.
He made a sign to us to keep quiet and went across the yard, and we saw him shake the lash of his stockwhip loose.
Just mark him as he jogs along, his stockwhip on his knee, His white mole pants and polished boots and jaunty cabbage- tree.
Now on every side we faintly hear The crack of the stockwhip drawing near; To the camp the cattle soon converge, As from the thick scrub they emerge.
I'm like a rat if I'm cornered, but it takes a man with a stockwhip to corner me.
Like a flash one of the black boys darted out of the line, galloped to the head of the cattle, and rode there, pursued by the flying mob, the cracks of his heavy stockwhip sounding above the roar of hoofs and the bellowing of the cattle.
With a week's good grass in their wretched hides, with a curse and a stockwhipcrack They hunted them off on the road once more to starve on the half-mile track.
Then Dolly began to gain, and he thundered up between two of the ridges with the spurs stabbing his horse’s sides at every leap, and his stockwhip slashing at the flying dog.
A man cantered easily behind the mob, the long-thonged stockwhip swinging in his hand, and snapping swiftly at any beast that swerved from the mob.
Steve Knight looked up from the stockwhip he was plaiting.
The stockwhip is composed of a lash of plaited raw hide, twelve to fifteen feet long, and about one and half inches thick at the belly, which is close to the handle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stockwhip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
