noun

• (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
• (botany) Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
• (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) An attempt; a go at something.
  "I'll have a lash."

verb

• (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
  "We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward"
• (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
  "Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide."
• (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
  "He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws."
• (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

verb

• (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
  "to lash something to a spar"

adj

• (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
• (obsolete) Relaxed.
• (Ulster) Excellent, wonderful.
  "We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!"
• (British, slang) Drunk.