Belash

Quick meaning: Belash is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to.

Example Sentences

[…] begging him "to belash" her son, as his last master had done […]

The same mother, Agnes Paston, enters among her errands in London a commission to her son's tutor, Greenfield, to "belash" his charge till he amend, he being then fifteen and having been some time at Cambridge.

[…] the men pulling them up with a jerk to alight and chastise some flagrant offender; and finally a babel of dismal howls and angry ascrying^([sic]), as the long rods are shortened to a convenient length and the process of belashing begins.

Word Forms

• belashes
• belashing
• belashed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lash, flay, lace, lather, stripe, lambaste.

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