lash

noun (HIT)

/læʃ/

Definition

› [C or S] a thin strip of leather at the end of a whip, or a hit with this, especially as a form of punishment: He received 30 lashes for the crime. The punishment for disobedience was the lash. → See also whiplashPunishing by causing painHitting and beatingPunishing and punishments › [C] a sudden, violent movement of something that can bend: With a powerful lash of its tail, the fish jumped out of the net and back into the river.Hitting and beatingPunishing by causing pain

(Definition of lash noun (HIT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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