lashing

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English

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Etymology

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From lash +‎ -ing.

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Noun

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lashing (countable and uncountable, plural lashings)

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. As lashings: lots.
    Lashings of ginger beer

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Verb

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lashing

  1. present participle and gerund of lash
    the rain was lashing down

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