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Lash   /læʃ/   Listen
noun
Lash  n.  
1.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. "I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it."
2.
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. (Obs.)
3.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
4.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. "The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well."
5.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.


verb
Lash  v. t.  (past & past part. lashed; pres. part. lashng)  
1.
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. "We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward."
2.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail. "And big waves lash the frighted shores."
3.
To throw out with a jerk or quickly. "He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws."
4.
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.


Lash  v. t.  To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.


Lash  v. i.  To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language. "To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice."
To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously; also used figuratively.





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"Lash" Quotes from Famous Books



... a snarling sob. "You dog!" And his lash came down and cut a long red wheal across Sir ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... She made up her mind that this was all wrong—that all parties would have been more amiable and happy, if there had been the same freedom and confidence that she saw on other estates. Poor girl! she little knew what was in all minds but her own—what recollections of the lash and the stocks, and hunger and imprisonment on the one hand, and of the horrors of that August night on the other. She little knew how generally it was supposed that she owed it to the grandfather whom she loved so much that she was the solitary orphan whom ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... whipped by the gale, and to watch the great waves come in. It made him stronger to fight the storm. The response to its challenge rose in his blood. It was curious, but at such times his hope was highest. He stood up, defying the lash of wind and rain, and felt his courage rise with the contest. Often, he ran up and down the beach until he was soaked through, letting the fierce waves sweep almost to his feet, then he would go back to the house, change to dry ...
— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler
... of the cruel lash, and their maddened horse, bounding at each stroke, broke into a wild canter. The frail vehicle swayed from side to side at each spring of the elastic shafts. Steadying himself by one hand on the low rail, Dunn ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... meals in the woods. He whipped one of his negroes because he threatened to inform the Provost Marshal that we were there; he suggested to me the idea to lash one of his negroes down and carry him to Virginia; he said there were but four or five loyal men in ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith


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