lashwise en · ADV
Etymology
From lash + -wise.
Meanings
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(nonce-word, not-comparable) 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: