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lash1 /lash/ noun- Loosely, the flexible part of a whip, but properly its terminal piece of whipcord
- A scourge
- An eyelash
- A stroke with a whip or anything pliant
- A sweep or flick
- A stroke of satire
transitive verb- To strike with, or as if with, a lash
- To dash against
- To drive, urge or work by blows of anything flexible (also figurative)
- To whisk or flick with a sweeping movement
- To secure with a rope or cord
- To bind (rope) to prevent unravelling
- To scourge with sarcasm or satire
- To lavish or squander (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To dash or rush
- To make a rapid sweeping or flicking movement
- To use the whip
ORIGIN: Perh several different words, with possible connections with latch1, lash2 and lace lashˈer noun - A person who lashes or whips
- A rope for binding one thing to another
lashˈing noun - An act of whipping
- A rope for making things secure
- The binding preventing the unravelling of a rope
- (esp in pl) an abundance of anything (informal)
lashˈ-up noun (slang) - An improvisation
- A mess, fiasco
lash out - To kick out, fling out or hit out without restraint
- To spend extravagantly
lash2 /lash/ (obsolete or dialect) adjective- Slow or slack
- Soft
- Insipid
ORIGIN: ME lasche slack, from OFr lasche (Fr lâche cowardly), from L laxus lax lashˈer noun - A weir
- A waterfall from a weir
- A pool below a weir
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