Meaning of belash | Babel Free

Definitions

To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to

archaic, transitive

Examples

“The same mother, Agnes Paston, enters among her errands in London a commission to her son's tutor, Greenfield, to "belash" his charge till he amend, he being then fifteen and having been some time at Cambridge.”

“[…] begging him "to belash" her son, as his last master had done […]”

“[…] the men pulling them up with a jerk to alight and chastise some flagrant offender; and finally a babel of dismal howls and angry ascrying^([sic]), as the long rods are shortened to a convenient length and the process of belashing begins.”

CEFR level