Noun: quirt
| Singular | quirt |
| Plural | quirts |
Sample Sentences
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He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it. [1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 177, column 2:]
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He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt. [1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:]
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[…] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […] [1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:]
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He wore a revolver down low, with ammunition belt, and carried a small quirt of some kind, and pieces of leather hanging everywhere, like a walking torture chamber: shiny shoes, low-hanging jacket, cocky hat, everything but boots. [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:]
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She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon. [1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 96:]
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He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt. [1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:]
Nouns inflected like quirt
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”). See: Spanish Nouns '
cuerda'.