Concept cluster: Actions > Whipping or Lashing
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
v
(transitive) To cudgel thoroughly or soundly.
n
(chiefly Britain, slang) A success; the bomb.
n
act of brandishing something
n
(US, figuratively) An action intended to threaten or frighten someone.
n
(UK, dialect) The knocker of a door.
v
To strike with a cudgel.
n
(medicine) A subtype of localised scleroderma that presents with a linear, atrophic depression on the frontoparietal scalp.
v
(transitive) to execute by strangulation
n
One who hammers.
v
to stab
n
(US, archaic) A nickname for a man employed for his fistfighting skill.
v
(transitive) To whip (cream, etc.) too much, so as to spoil the texture.
v
(transitive) To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
n
A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
n
(UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong.
n
A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
v
(transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.
v
(transitive, cooking) To whip again.
n
Any swimming amphipod.
v
To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
n
(UK dialectal, Lancashire, obsolete) A moment; a while.
v
(intransitive) To move rapidly.
n
Alternative form of spud bashing [(UK, slang) The chore of peeling potatoes, especially when given as a punishment.]
n
A switching; a beating with twigs.
v
(transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
v
(transitive) To beat with twigs.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To flog or whip; to beat or strike.
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(slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To beat; to thrash; to whip; to lash.
n
(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
v
(transitive) To beat (stir) (a liquid) quickly so to introduce air and form foam.
v
To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
v
(transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
n
(slang) A beating around the head with a baton or wooden bat.
n
(Western England dialect) Synonym of sock: a blow, a strike.

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