horse-whim

Updated: July 5, 2025

Any way it was strong enough to carry away the machine, so we waited there ten minutes and wondered the basket did not come down; but they above, meanwhile, were rigging a rope to an old horse-whim, and as they could not get horses, the men run the poles round themselves. "But we at the bottom knew nothing of all this.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn