LASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lashing mean? 

• LASHING (noun)
  The noun LASHING has 2 senses:

1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

2. rope that is used for fastening something to something else

  Familiarity information: LASHING used as a noun is rare.

• LASHING (adjective)
  The adjective LASHING has 1 sense:

1. violently urging on by whipping or flogging

  Familiarity information: LASHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping

Hypernyms ("lashing" is a kind of...):

beating; drubbing; lacing; licking; thrashing; trouncing; whacking (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lashing"):

self-flagellation (self-punishment inflicted by whipping)

horsewhipping (the act of whipping with a horsewhip)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rope that is used for fastening something to something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the boats were held together by lashings

Hypernyms ("lashing" is a kind of...):

fastener; fastening; fixing; holdfast (restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place)

rope (a strong line)

• LASHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Violently urging on by whipping or flogging

Context example:

looked at the lashing riders

Similar:

violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)

 Context examples 

As they swung on the turn the sled went over, spilling half its load through the loose lashings.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She sneezed continually, and her stub of a tail was doing its best toward lashing about by giving quick, violent jerks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As he said so he cut with a knife the various lashings that held it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The square, when they got there, was full of wind and dust, and the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I proceeded to experiment, lashing and wedging the steering-oar until the boat held on fairly well by the wind without my assistance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At last, in a fight with Black Baruk the Jew, he finished the battle with such a lashing hit that he not only knocked his opponent over the inner ropes, but he left him betwixt life and death for long three weeks.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He worked the sack of gold out between the lashings and carried it to the water- hole. Already a new skin of ice had formed. This he broke with his fist. Untying the knotted mouth with his teeth, he emptied the contents of the sack into the water.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Once, he roused with a start and hastily got the axe out from underneath the lashings.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By this time the gas-bag had swollen to a goodly rotundity and was jerking strongly upon its lashings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)