†(a) gen. A sudden or violent blow; a dashing or sweeping stroke. Obsolete. (b) spec. A stroke with a thong or whip.

The action of lash, v.1 in various senses; beating, flogging; an instance of this. †lashing out, lavishing, squandering.

The action of striking a person or animal with a whip, switch, or stick; a whipping, a thrashing. Cf. jerk, v.1 1. Obsolete.

A blow from a whip or stick; a stroke, a lash. Obsolete.

The action of striking with or as with a whip. gen. or in other connections, e.g. the driving of a horse, or spinning of a top, with a whip.

A cut, a stroke. Obsolete. rare.

a blow with something pliant, a lash.

A stroke with a stick or whip.

The action of scutch, v.1

A beating with a switch; a flogging; the striking of an object with a switch.

A sharp stroke or blow with a whip, cane, etc.

A slashing cut or stroke.

An act of switching; a blow with a switch; also in Angling (cf. switch, v. 3a).

A stroke with a lash or pliant stick; also, a heavy blow with the fist. (Cf. welt, v.1 5.)

A cut or slash, as with a whip.