Robert

According to the ever reliable "A dictionary of mining, mineral, and related
matters" produced by the US Bureau of Mines (1968):

WHIP:

(a) Horse gear used once in hoisting ore in which the load was raised by a
rope passing over a pulley and pulled by a draught animal. Modern form
occasionally seen has a car or lorry working backwards and forward for
shallow pitting: [SOURCE: Pryor, Edmund J. Dictionary of Mineral Technology.
Mining Publications Ltd, London, 1963, 437 pp]

(b) When used as a derrick or gin called a whip-and-derry [SOURCE: Fay,
Albert H. A Glossary of Mining and Mineral Industry. BuMines Bull, 95, 1920,
754 pp]

(c) One who operates such a hoisting apparatus [Source: Funk & Wagnalls Co,
Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, New York,
1964 (copyright 1963) 2816 pp]

Which suggest a former use as horse drawn gin for the shaft or the adoption
of the expression 'whip' to describe a pulley system

Regards

Graham


-----Original Message-----
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Robert Waterhouse
Sent: 03 May 2008 20:02
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Subject: Re: Mining term 'whip'

Dear List,
 
What does the term 'whip' mean in an underground context?  The C19 Wheal
Friendship section drawing shows two shafts called East & West Whip Shafts,
both of which are named as 'chain roads' higher up in the mine; they both
converge on the foot of Courtice's Shaft.  I suspect the chain roads carried
chains on pulleys which transferred back-and-forth motion to deep pumping
machinery - do whips have something to do with this?
 
Robert Waterhouse
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