Noun

1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

   • 1973: She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 96)
   • 1994: 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. — Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing