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Lashing   /lˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
Lashing

noun
1.
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.  Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping.
2.
Rope that is used for fastening something to something else.
adjective
1.
Violently urging on by whipping or flogging.


Lash

verb
(past & past part. lashed; pres. part. lashng)
1.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
2.
Lash or flick about sharply.
3.
Strike as if by whipping.  Synonym: whip.
4.
Bind with a rope, chain, or cord.



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"Lashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Lashing police with his vibray," said the announcer, "Lane broke through the cordon surrounding Manhattan Armory. Two policemen were killed, four others seriously injured. Tammany Hall has warned that this man is extremely dangerous. Citizens are cautioned ...
— Mutineer • Robert J. Shea
... rode angrily after him; but, though the violence of the rain was lessening, the wind began to blow with redoubled force, beating and lashing the boundless expanse of the quickly formed lake with such savage fury that it rolled in surges like the sea, and sweeping over it dense clouds of foam like the sand waves tossed by ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... the masses of water, she had fairly staggered beneath the impact. Now she lay motionless, while every shroud and line dripped; the darkness had become inky. Only the light from cabin windows which lay on the wet deck like shafts of silver relieved that Cimmerian effect. The sea moaned from the lashing it had received—a faint undertone, however, that became suddenly drowned by loud and harsh clangor, the hammering on metal somewhere below. Possibly something had gone wrong with a hatch or iron compartment door inadvertently ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... a wake," greeted another crowd of boys, who stretched an audacious line across the street directly in front of the surging gallop of the black horse. This time the driver got some revenge by lashing a couple of them with his long whip. This provoked a volley of stones, causing Jim and his friend to duck ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... weather, roared and spouted on the rock itself. Times were different upon Dhu Heartach when it blew, and the night fell dark, and the neighbour lights of Skerryvore and Rhu-val were quenched in fog, and the men sat prisoned high up in their iron drum, that then resounded with the lashing of the sprays. Fear sat with them in their sea-beleaguered dwelling; and the colour changed in anxious faces when some greater billow struck the barrack, and its pillars quivered and sprang under the blow. It was then that the foreman builder, Mr. Goodwillie, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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