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lasks

UK/lɑːsks/US/læsks/

lasks is the plural of lask.

Meaning of lask

Noun

lask (countable and uncountable, plural lasks)

  1. (uncountable) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.
    • Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79

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Words that rhyme with lasks

Questions about lasks

What is lasks the plural of?
Lasks is the plural of lask.
How do you pronounce lasks?
Lasks is pronounced /lɑːsks/ (UK).

Words near lasks in the dictionary

  1. Lasko
  2. Laskos
  3. Laskovtsov
  4. Laskowski
  5. Laskowskis
  6. lasks
  7. Laskuy
  8. Lasky
  9. Laskys
  10. Laslea
  11. Laslett

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