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@@ -655,6 +655,11 @@ bugle
 	His blast is heard at merry morn,
 	And mine at dead of night.'
 		[ Brignall Banks, by Sir Walter Scott ]
+bullwhip
+	"Good," he said and, unbelievably, smiled at me, a smirk like
+	a round of rotted cheese.  "What did your keeper use on you?
+	A bullwhip?"
+		[ Melusine, by Sarah Monette ]
 *camaxtli
 	A classical Mesoamerican Aztec god, also known as Mixcoatl-
 	Camaxtli (the Cloud Serpent), Camaxtli is the god of war.  He