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Word entry · 4 letters

lash

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"Whip stroke"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /læʃ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted ahlsStarts with LEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
1L2A3S4H

Definitions

  1. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

Word origin

From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).

Used in a sentence

  • I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
  • The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
  • The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.

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