lashwise

adv

lashwise

adv

Etymology From lash + -wise.

1

Nonce word 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.1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile:

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