"whipstock" meaning in English

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          "text": "He had need mean better than his outward show\nCan any way speak in his just commend;\nFor by his rusty outside he appears\nTo have practised more the whipstock than the lance.",
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          "ref": "1895, Kate Douglas Wiggin, “The Eventful Trip of the Midnight Cry”, in The Village Watch-Tower, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 216:",
          "text": "Jerry gave one terror-stricken look, wound his reins round the whipstock, and, leaping from his seat, disappeared behind a convenient tree.",
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          "ref": "1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, chapter 14, in Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore, Oxford University Press, page 234:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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        "The driver of a carriage."
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