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These barrel-shaped filter feeders have a protective rod running the length of their nerve cord while young, making them and other sea quirts our closest relatives among invertebrates.

He slapped his quirt on his leg and we all ran.

“Glenda said I ought to do this full-time,” he said, gesturing to several quirts drying on a rack by the door.

Horace rested his elbow on his saddle horn and stirred a fly from his horse’s shoulder with his rawhide quirt.

The last ball quirts off Smith’s bum/pad and runs away to fine leg for four leg-byes.