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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Lash" Quotes from Famous Books



... is there. (Pointing to old MORTON, whose head has sunk drunkenly on his breast.) Heed not this man; his tongue carries only the borrowed lash of ...
— Two Men of Sandy Bar - A Drama • Bret Harte
... never seeing the light of day. Cruel overseers with whips stood over these poor people, who had been captured in many countries by the raiding parties of King Gos, and the overseers were quite willing to lash the slaves with their whips if they faltered a moment in ...
— Rinkitink in Oz • L. Frank Baum
... ferocious eagerness take fire, for it seemed to him that the day of reckoning had come. Henry's behavior was now easily understandable; the fellow was cringing, cowering in anticipation of a second blow. Well, the whip was in Gray's hands, and he proposed to use it ruthlessly—to sink the lash, to cut to the bone, to leave scars such as Henry had left upon him. Nor was that his only weapon. There was, for instance, Old Bell Nelson's honor. If coercion failed, there were rewards, inducements. Oh, Henry would have to speak! The Nelson fortune, or what remained for salvage ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... written, I detect a spirit suspiciously like his own. All through, I have been comparing myself with our satirist, and all through, I have had the best of the comparison. Well, well, contagion is as often mental as physical; and I do not think my readers, who have all been under his lash, will blame me very much for giving the headsman a mouthful of his ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... her riding-whip down on Nancy's young face. She imagined the pleasure she would feel when the lash fell across those queer features; the plea sure she would feel at drawing the handle at the same moment toward her, so as to cut deep into the flesh and to ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford


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