†(a) gen. A sudden or violent blow; a dashing or sweeping stroke. Obsolete. (b) spec. A stroke with a thong or whip.

A ‘stripe’ inflicted by a lash or rod. Obsolete. rare. (Also in form band, belonging to band, n.2 8.)

A blow or stroke with, or as with, a whip; a lash, stripe; plural a flogging. Now only Scottish.

A stroke or lash with a whip or scourge. Now archaic, chiefly in plural.

Scottish. = lash, n.1 Obsolete. (Cf. leash, v. 2.)

A blow from a whip or stick; a stroke, a lash. Obsolete.

A blow with a whip. Obsolete. rare.

An act of switching; a blow with a switch; also in Angling (cf. switch, v. 3a).