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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Mid-Ulster|Northern Ireland excellent, wonderful
  • Drunk.
  • obsolete Relaxed.
  • obsolete Remiss, lax.
  • Soft, watery, wet.

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Noun:

  • A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
  • A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
  • A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
  • In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
  • obsolete A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
  • The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To ply the whip; to strike.
  • intransitive To utter censure or sarcastic language.
  • transitive To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
  • transitive To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
  • transitive To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
  • transitive To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
  • transitive To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

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