To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
To ply the whip; to strike.
Excellent, wonderful.
Drunk.
Soft, watery, wet.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
An attempt; a go at something.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.