Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to beat, to whip.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hue c. to Lash. Hued, c. Lasht or Flogg’d. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, c. the Rogue was severely Lasht in Bridewell.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 207: Hue, to lash. The cove was hued in the naskin, i.e., the rogue was severely lashed in Bridewell.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.

2. to hit with a cudgel.

1889–90

Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant.