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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'

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"Lash" Quotes from Famous Books

... shalt sail away till like an old sorrow dimly felt by happy men the worlds shall gleam in the distance like one star, and as the star pales thou shalt come to the shore of space where aeons rolling shorewards from Time's sea shall lash up centuries to foam away in years. There lies the Centre Garden of the gods, facing full seawards. All around lie songs that on earth were never sung, fair thoughts not heard among the worlds, dream pictures ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... the island of St. Paul in Behring Sea, which was done, the observer continuing for a year in that farthest outpost. His record of frozen fogs which wrap the island like a pall, of cyclones from the Asian seas that lash its rocky coast, of vast masses of electric clouds seen nowhere else which sweep incessantly over it toward the Pole, reads more like the story of a nightmare ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various

... corner,—at the sheaf of nodding rosebuds on the hat—the bracelets—the pink cheeks under the dainty veil,—looked with a curious aloofness, as though from a great distance. Then, evidently, another thought struck her like a lash. She ceased to see or think of Letty. Her grip tightened on ...

— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... have seen thee on thy surging path When the night-tempest met thee; thou didst dash Thy white arms high in heaven, as if in wrath, Threatening the angry sky; thy waves did lash The labouring vessel, and with deadening crash Rush madly forth to scourge its groaning sides; Onward thy billows came, to meet and clash In a wild warfare, till the lifted tides Mingled their yesty tops, where the ...

— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... sound of the angry river, whose slaty waves flashed out strange gleams. What is it in the gloom and horror of nature that so draws us and yet warns us to flee? The day was ending stormily. The poplars wailed, and bent under the lash of the rising wind; dark masses of cloud stood still in the sky, whilst others, torn and scattered below them, rushed hither and thither madly. Every few minutes the faint gleam of lightning, still ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

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