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black-snake whip 
a whip having a long, tapering lash or plaited rawhide, often loaded with shot at the tip.
See also: snake-whip
- 1913 [With] the whizzing crack of the young driver's "blacksnake" whip . . . the "mountain mail" was away. . . .
- 1954 Long braided or shot-loaded black-snake lashes on a short stock for horses, long stock for bulls--were the standard whip equipment, and either bull whacker or horse skinner had to be able to make his whip talk.
- 1913 [With] the whizzing crack of the young driver's "blacksnake" whip . . . the "mountain mail" was away. . . .