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lashwise

adv

Etymology

From lash + -wise.

  1. inherited from *laskô✻
  2. inherited from lashe
  3. suffixed as lashwise — “lash + wise”

Definitions

  1. In the manner of a whiplash.

    • “Come, Yankee,” here swore the incensed private; “cease this, or I’ll darn your old fawn-skins for ye with the flat of this sword;” for a specimen, laying it lashwise, but not heavily, across the captive’s back.

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