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Lashed

Lash \Lash\ (l[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lashng.]

  1. To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

    We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward.
    --Dryden.

  2. 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.

    And big waves lash the frighted shores.
    --Dryden.

  3. To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

    He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
    --Dryden.

  4. To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.

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lashed

vb. (en-past of: lash)

Usage examples of "lashed".

Once you are lashed, you shall be given to anther whom Galiose shall choose.

Surely those to be lashed were meant to have attained a greater height than I, though there were few Midanna who had my size.

His hand lashed my face harshly when I refused to beg his favor, and little liking had he for my lack of speech to him.

Not only had she been lashed to the bone by Galiose, but she had also been set upon by enemy savage wenches, who had touched her many times with their spears.

I sat was a large enclosure of wood, a thing of wide logs lashed tightly together with much leather.

The third female, startled, took herself back a step from my presence, yet her rage returned immediately, greatly intensified, and her foot lashed out, catching the limb which I still used to support a great deal of my weight.

Galiose had her lashed, yet their rage turned insane when Galiose was unable to produce her and prove that she still lived.

Delaunay had dressed as hastily as I, and his shirt was half-askew, caught up in the sword-belt he had lashed round his waist.

I lay atop straw, prickling my cheek, beneath rough-spun woolen blankets, and from the incessant lurching motion and the sound of hooves, it was a cart in which I rode, lashed over with a canvas tarpaulin.

It was then that I saw the second figure half-buried under the woolens, blond hair blending into straw, dim grey clothing rendering him nearly invisible in the faint light that filtered around the lashed edges of the canvas above us.

Their sails were lashed, but they flew the Courcel pennant, the silver swan snapping in the sea breeze.

He raised his voice, and the winds lashed us and the clouds roiled, the seas far below beating themselves in a frenzy against the cliffs.

But Hector ignored the Argive masses, killing none, he lashed his pounding stallions straight at Patroclus.

She cursed him, lashed out a foot, and caught him a blow in the shins.

Then he shuffled it into another stack, smeared with erasures and chalk dust, and lashed out with a foot, catching the floor scrubber a hard blow in the ribs.