Meaning

noun any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

noun leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

noun a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

originFrom Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”). Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0