Equally interesting is a Bruen tradition concerning a party of Hessians that during the Revolutionary War, on a bitter winter day, stopped their horses in front of the Bruen house and rapped with their whipstocks on the front door.
Definition of whipstock in US English:
whipstock
nounˈ(h)wipˌstäkˈ(h)wɪpˌstɑk
The handle of a whip.
鞭杆，鞭棍
Example sentencesExamples
Equally interesting is a Bruen tradition concerning a party of Hessians that during the Revolutionary War, on a bitter winter day, stopped their horses in front of the Bruen house and rapped with their whipstocks on the front door.