lash (1), lasche, lasshe

[Etym. doubtful; cf. Ger. lasche =a flap.] IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] lasio (2) A stroke with anything pliant and tough; a stroke with a whip. "The lash resounds, the rapid chariot flies." Pope: Homer's Iliad, v. 457. (3) A leash or string in which an animal is held; a snare. 2. Fig .: A stroke of satire; sarcasm, satire, vituperation. "The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well." --L'Estrange . II. Weaving : A thong formed of the combined ends of the cords by which a certain set of yarns are raised in the proce of weaving Bru els carpet. Each yarn (termed an end) pa es through an eye (the mail), to which is attached a cord pa ing over a pulley above the frame of the loom. The cords required to raise to the surface a certain set of yarns, required for one row in the pattern, are bound together into a lash, so as to be operated by a single pull.