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belash

belash verb: to strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to.

Verb

belash (third-person singular simple present belashes, present participle belashing, simple past and past participle belashed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to
    • 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.1869, William M. Cooper, Flagellation and the Flagellants, page 386
    • […] begging him "to belash" her son, as his last master had done […]1882, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 5, page 734

Forms of belash

third-person singular presentbelashes
present participlebelashing
past participlebelashed
pastbelashed

Origin of belash

From Middle English bilasshen, bylaschen, bilaisshen, equivalent to be- + lash.

Questions about belash

What does belash mean?
Belash means to strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to.
What part of speech is belash?
Belash is a verb.
What is the past tense of belash?
The past tense of belash is belashed.

Words near belash in the dictionary

  1. Belarusophones
  2. Belarussian
  3. Belarussians
  4. Belasco
  5. Belascos
  6. belash
  7. belashed
  8. belashes
  9. belashing
  10. belast
  11. belatacept

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