Dog whip

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Hondeslager as stonemasonry of the St. Bavo Church in Haarlem
An English public official, 1882 ("An Olden Time Dog Whipper and Sluggard Wakener", painting by Reuben Bussey)

Dog whip or dog whip referred to an office or its executors, which had to drive dogs from certain public places and especially from churches .

In principle, dogs were welcome at the service , it was only customary to remove barking and annoying dogs. The payment of the dog whip is well documented in English parish registers. In 1856 a Mr. John Pickard was appointed dog whipper of St. Peter's Cathedral (Exeter) . The Dog Acre at Birchington-on-Sea served as the benefice of the local official. Sometimes the dog whipers also had the task of waking up drunken or asleep community members as sluggard wakers .

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  1. ↑ Dog whipping. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ). Dog whip . In: German dictionary . tape 10 , 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ Dog Whip . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 6 , issue 1 (edited by Hans Blesken, Siegfried Reicke ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1961, OCLC 832566867 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ^ A b Jobs Your Ancestors Had: The Dog Whipper . ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Genealogy Addict: An Ancestry Hobby Blog.
  4. ^ Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Dog whipper (A). In: bartleby.com. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .