lashing

5 definitions found

lashing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lasher \Lash"er\, n.
     1. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to
        another; -- called also lashing.
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     2. A weir in a river. [Eng.] --Halliwell.
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  Lashing \Lash"ing\, n.
     The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation;
     chastisement. --South.
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     Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.
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  Lashing \Lash"ing\, n.
     See 2d Lasher.
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lashing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lashing
      adj 1: violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at
             the lashing riders"
      n 1: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of
           punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging,
           lashing, flagellation]
      2: rope that is used for fastening something to something else;
         "the boats were held together by lashings"

lashing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "lashing":
     adhesive, affixation, annexation, attachment, bastinado, basting,
     battery, beating, belting, binding, bond, buffeting, caning,
     clasping, clubbing, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling,
     drubbing, fastener, fastening, flagellation, flailing, flogging,
     fustigation, girding, hooking, horsewhipping, knot, lacing,
     ligation, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, splice,
     sticking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing,
     tieing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping, zipping