lash

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /læʃ/, SAMPA: /l{S/
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• Rhymes: -æʃ

[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Noun

lash (plural lashes)

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. — Joseph Addison.

2. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.

   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. — Roger L'Estrange

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.

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to lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) 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. — John Dryden

2. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.

   the whale lashes the sea with its tail.

   And big waves lash the frighted shores. — John Dryden

3. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

   He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. — John Dryden

4. (transitive) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.

   to lash vice

5. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

   to lash something to a spar

   lash a pack on a horse's back

6. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
7. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.

   To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. — John Dryden

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• lash out

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old French lasche (French lâche).

[edit] Adjective

lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)

1. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
2. (obsolete) Relaxed.
3. Soft, watery, wet.
   • 1658: Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
4. (Mid-Ulster, Northern Ireland) excellent, wonderful

   We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

   That chinese (food) was lash!

5. Drunk.