page_title: Bullwhip
hierarchical_section_title: Bullwhip
caption_attribution_description: An Australian bullwhip
context_page_description: A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather, designed as a tool for working with livestock.
  Bullwhips are pastoral tools, traditionally used to control livestock in open country. A bullwhip's length, flexibility, and tapered design allows it to be thrown in such a way that, toward the end of the throw, part of the whip exceeds the speed of sound—thereby creating a small sonic boom. The bullwhip was rarely, if ever, used to strike cattle, as this could inflict damage to the animal.
context_section_description: A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather, designed as a tool for working with livestock.
  Bullwhips are pastoral tools, traditionally used to control livestock in open country. A bullwhip's length, flexibility, and tapered design allows it to be thrown in such a way that, toward the end of the throw, part of the whip exceeds the speed of sound—thereby creating a small sonic boom. The bullwhip was rarely, if ever, used to strike cattle, as this could inflict damage to the animal.
caption: A bullwhip
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