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Lashing

Lashing Meaning & Definition
Lashing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lashing?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lashing: flagellation | flogging | tanning | violent | whipping

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | beating | drubbing | fastener | fastening | fixing | holdfast | horsewhipping | lacing | rope | self-flagellation | thrashing | trouncing | whacking

Lashing In Webster's Dictionary

\Lash"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. --South. {Lashing out}, a striking out; also, extravagance.
\Lash"ing\, n. See 2d {Lasher}.

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