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At one point in my story, I am trying to describe a fight. The action is that one of the fighters firsts attacks with a sword, disarming his opponent and then hits him with his foot.
The sentence is -
The blade flashed, the strike removing the sword from his hands. Charlie followed that with a lash of his foot, tripping Adam off his.
The text in bold is the one which feels very weird to me when reading. Is it a valid usage ? If not, what can I do to make the action more sensible.
When using the word "lash" to denote movement, it almost always refers to something pliable like a tail, whip, rain, etc. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lash
It seems like you would be better served by something closer to a definition of "hit" or "strike": https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/strike
However, the english language itself is pliable or fluid, so use that artistic license!
