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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lash up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
    • Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […] 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lashes up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lashing up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lashed up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lashed up Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

lash-up · lashup

Synonyms

jury-rig