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Whiplash vs Lashwise - What's the difference?

whiplash | lashwise |

As a noun whiplash

is the lash of a whip.

As a verb whiplash

is to jerk back and forth; to buffet.

As an adverb lashwise is

in the manner of a whiplash.

whiplash

English

Noun

(wikipedia whiplash) (es)
  • the lash of a whip
  • an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction

    • Synonyms

    * whiplash injury (2)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To jerk back and forth; to buffet
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, December 23, Nicholas Confessore, Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats, The New York Times citation
    • , passage=
  • To lash as if with a whip
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, , My Sweet Audrina citation
    • , passage=After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches. }}

    lashwise

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nonce) In the manner of a whiplash.
  • * 1855 , Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
    • “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.