Pronunciations
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/læʃ/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
- US
Noun
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
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I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
Usage- Obsolete
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
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The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
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The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
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But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
An attempt; a go at something.
Usage- Australia
- Ireland
- New-Zealand
- Informal
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I'll have a lash.
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Much-loved characters living on after their author’s death is not so unusual these days. Every second bloke in possession of a keyboard seems to have had a lash at a James Bond thriller, including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz, Christopher Wood and Sebastian Faulks.
“I felt I’d go out and grab the bull by the horns and give it a good lash and I’m very pleased to come away with second in my very first Diamond League final.”
A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
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the Ayrshire cow gives a lash of milk on comparatively bare pasture
The oaks cry oot beneath November's lashes, But not for all the months[…]
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... put a lash of scepticism in his tone.
Verb
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
Usage- Transitive
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We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward
A lesbian who was lashed as a teenager for saying she was gay.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
Usage- Transitive
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Heavy seas lashed the shore.
(A swan) dashed suddenly forward with such a flutter that the water all round was lashed into foam.
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Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
Usage- Transitive
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He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
Usage- Transitive
- Synonyms
To ply the whip; to strike.
Usage- Intransitive
To strike vigorously; to let fly.
Usage- Intransitive
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In the final minute of six added on, Colombia would undo their good work, though, Pérez fumbling the ball allowing Hemp to lash into the empty net.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
Usage- Intransitive
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To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Usage- Intransitive
- of rain
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With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
Verb
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
Usage- Transitive
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to lash something to a spar
lash a pack on a horse's back
Adjective
Remiss, lax.
Usage- Obsolete
Relaxed.
Usage- Obsolete
Soft, watery, wet.
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Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.
Excellent, wonderful.
Usage- Ulster
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We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
That Chinese (food) was lash!
Drunk.
Usage- UK usage
- Slang
Noun
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
Usage- Uncountable
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setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters
excessive lash in the gear train
Noun
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
- Broader terms
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
- Broader terms
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the whip raised a red welt
Verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
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The teacher often flogged the students
The children were severely trounced
lash or flick about sharply
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The lion lashed its tail
strike as if by whipping
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The curtain whipped her face
bind with a rope, chain, or cord
- Antonyms
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lash the horse