whipstock

noun

1. The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.

   “He had need mean better than his outward show Can any way speak in his just commend; For by his rusty outside he appears To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.”

   “Jerry gave one terror-stricken look, wound his reins round the whipstock, and, leaping from his seat, disappeared behind a convenient tree.”

   “[…] cowherds and carters had goads and whipstocks of quicken-wood, to counteract the witch who could bring the team to a standstill, whence the old sayings: Woe to the lad Without a rowan-tree gad, and: If your whipstock’s made of rown You may ride through any town.”

   “He liked to have [the axe-helve] slender as a whipstock, Free from the least knot, equal to the strain Of bending like a sword across the knee.”

2. (broadly)The driver of a carriage.