lashing
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lashing (countable and uncountable, plural lashings)
- Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
- The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
- The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
- a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volumes (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
- the lashings out of his luxur
- As lashings: lots.
- Lashings of ginger beer
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Something used to tie something or lash it to something
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lashing
- present participle and gerund of lash
- the rain was lashing down