transitive. To strike (a person or animal), esp. with a whip or rod; to beat, thrash, or flog. Now Scottish and English regional (northern).

transitive. To strike (a person or animal) with a whip, switch, or stick; to whip, to lash. Obsolete.

transitive ? To strike with something pliant, to flog: cf. quot. 1590 whiss n. at derivatives in noun below.

To strike sharply with a whip, a thin stick or the like; to lash. Also said of the whip, etc. transitive and absol.

transitive. To strike with a stick or whip, to slash, switch. Also intransitive to strike at.

To crack (a whip); to bring down in a slashing manner.

transferred, esp. of the action of waves upon the shore, etc. Occasionally intransitive. To fall with a lashing movement on the shore.

transitive. To strike like a whip, lash; to move or drive in this way.

transitive. To strike, hit, beat, flog, or whip with or as with a switch.