Usually means: Strike or bind with whip.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lash, the lash: Merriam-Webster
  3. lash, the lash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lash, lash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lash: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lash: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lash, lash: Wordnik
  8. lash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lash, lash: Wiktionary
  10. lash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lash: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lash: Dictionary.com
  14. lash (n.), lash (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LASH, Lash (album), Lash (band), Lash (comics), Lash (engineering), Lash (surname), Lash, The Lash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lash: Rhymezone
  20. lash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lash: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lash: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  4. Lash (disambiguation), lash: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lash: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lash (disambiguation), lash: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LASH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. lash: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lash, lash, lash, lash, lash, lash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lash: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Lash (to get lashed), lash: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See lashed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
noun:  (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
noun:  A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
noun:  A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
noun:  A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
noun:  A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
noun:  In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) An attempt; a go at something.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
verb:  (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
verb:  (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
verb:  (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
verb:  (intransitive) To strike vigorously; to let fly.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
verb:  (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
verb:  Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
verb:  (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
adjective:  (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
adjective:  (obsolete) Relaxed.
adjective:  Soft, watery, wet.
adjective:  (Ulster) Excellent, wonderful.
adjective:  (British) Drunk.
noun:  (machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
noun:  A surname.
adjective:  (nautical) Acronym of lighter-aboard-ship.

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