hunting crop

Specifically, it is a loaded hunting crop.

Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.

Finding his wife terrified at the scene, he cursed her cowardice and raised his hunting crop as if to strike her.

The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes's hunting crop came down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone floor.

Gone was that seductive approach she had used downstairs, replaced by a viciousness, a hunting crop held loosely between her fingers as she pivoted on the balls of her feet to confront him.

As a schoolboy Master Harry defied Sandy and threatened him with his hunting crop; and subsequently, as a young man, has used strenuous endeavours to put the old servant in his place.

Using a "hunting crop", Holmes knocks a pistol from John Clay's hand in "The Red-Headed League" and drives away the adder in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".

A crop, sometimes called a riding crop or hunting crop, is a short type of whip without a lash, used in horse riding, part of the family of tools known as horse whips.

Lord Worplesdon is Bertie Wooster's uncle by marriage, and once chased the fifteen-year old Bertie "for five miles across difficult terrain" with a hunting crop, after finding him smoking one of his special cigars.

Charles Gould, before the long table strewn with papers, on which lay a hunting crop and a pair of spurs, stood looking at his wife: "The heat and dust must have been awful this afternoon by the waterside," he murmured, sympathetically.

Racing in time with his finger movements, one encounter after another, all leading up to an explosive finale in which the colonel's unfaithful wife cast aside her vicious hunting crop, tugged off her black leather boots and crawled across to him with her mouth wide in expectation.