lashwise

English

Etymology

From lash +‎ -wise.

Adverb

lashwise (not comparable)

1. (nonce word) In the manner of a whiplash.
   • 1854 July – 1855 March, Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published May 1855, →OCLC:

     “Come, Yankee,” here swore the incensed private; “cease this, or I’ll darn your old fawn-skins for ye with the flat of this sword;” for a specimen, laying it lashwise, but not heavily, across the captive’s back.