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belash en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:
   • […] 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. 1896, MacMillan's Magazine, volume 73, page 295:
   • […] begging him "to belash" her son, as his last master had done […] 1882, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 5, page 734:

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