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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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Etymology of 'Lash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lash" Quotes from Famous Books

... Crawford, and was therefore her actual owner. He was sworn, and gave evidence accordingly, but Purdy's cross-examination left him without a leg to stand on. He cut a pitiful figure as he floundered and lied and contradicted himself under the lash of that relentless tongue, miring himself ever deeper with explanations that did not explain, and agitated references to a "conspiracy" whose object it was to ruin him. No, the only thing to be considered was the degree of punishment that ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... his whip-lash before Clara's eyes, so as to make her wink. "I did not say I was good myself;" said he; "I said Marian was." And he ran out of ...

— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... the sting of the insult, as a high-bred horse winces beneath the lash. Of a sudden rage boiled in his veins like a fountain of fire, and drawing the dagger from his girdle, he rushed at the boys, dragging the hooded hawk, which had become dislodged from his wrist, fluttering through the ...

— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard

... in a degree suggested by the absence throughout the many-paged American newspaper of the least mention of a European circumstance unless some not-to-be-blinked war or revolution, or earthquake or other cataclysm has happened to apply the lash to curiosity. The most comprehensive journalistic formula that I have found myself, under that observation, reading into the general case is the principle that the first duty of the truly appealing sheet in a given community is to teach every individual reached ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... negro race, I myself have suffered as a child whose parents were born in slavery, deprived of all influences of the ennobling life, made obedient to the will of the white man by the lash and chain, and sold to the highest bidder when there was no more use ...

— Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days • Annie L. Burton

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