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To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.

A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.

One who whitewashes.

he wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. Milton.…

Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [R.] Donne.

Longing; wishful; desirous. Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. Swift.