Definition of Lashing

1. Noun. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.

Exact synonyms: Flagellation, Flogging, Tanning, Whipping
Generic synonyms: Beating, Drubbing, Lacing, Licking, Thrashing, Trouncing, Whacking
Specialized synonyms: Self-flagellation, Horsewhipping
Derivative terms: Flagellate, Flog, Flog, Whip

2. Adjective. Violently urging on by whipping or flogging. "Looked at the lashing riders"
Similar to: Violent

3. Noun. Rope that is used for fastening something to something else. "The boats were held together by lashings"
Generic synonyms: Fastener, Fastening, Fixing, Holdfast, Rope

Definition of Lashing

1. n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

2. n. See 2d Lasher.

Definition of Lashing

1. Noun. Something used to tie something or lash it to something. ¹

2. Noun. (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of lash) ¹

4. Verb. (Ireland slang) raining heavily. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lashing

1. a flogging [n -S] - See also: flogging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lashing

lash-curler
lash-up
lash curler
lash down
lash line
lash lines
lash out
lash together
lash up
lashed
lashed out
lasher
lashers
lashes
lashes out
lashing out
lashingly
lashings
lashins
lashkar
lashkars
lashless
lashlike
lashline
lashlines
lasht
lashup
lashups
lashwise

Literary usage of Lashing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"Part of a row of the lashing hairs or "cilia" which cover the gills of the oyster. This represents part of a single row, only the rj-jth of an inch long ..."

2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"The lashing by which the ¡nuzzle of a gun in a ship is secured to the upper part of tho port, to prevent motion during rough weather. Mya. ..."

3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"A lashing FOR THE ... conductors of the metropolis of England towards the animals through whose efforts they obtain their daily bread. * A lashing for the ..."

4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Methinks the ghost of Horace there I aee, lashing this cherry-cheek'd dunce of fifty-three. ... lashing ..."

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