Dictionary Entry
lash
lash is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- 2noun
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
- 3noun
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
- 4noun
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- 5noun
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- 6noun
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- 7transitive verb
To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9transitive verb
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- 10transitive verb
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
- 11intransitive verb
To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
"the whip raised a red welt"
- 14noun
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
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- 15noun
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
- 16verb
bind with a rope, chain, or cord
"lash the horse"
- 17verb
strike as if by whipping
"The curtain whipped her face"
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- 18verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
- 19verb
lash or flick about sharply
"The lion lashed its tail"
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