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Definition of Lashing
1. Adjective. Violently urging on by whipping or flogging. "Looked at the lashing riders"
2. Noun. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.
Generic synonyms: Beating, Drubbing, Lacing, Licking, Thrashing, Trouncing, Whacking
Specialized synonyms: Self-flagellation, Horsewhipping
Derivative terms: Flagellate, Flog, Flog, Whip
3. Noun. Rope that is used for fastening something to something else. "The boats were held together by lashings"
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
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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