lashing

From lash +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæʃɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃɪŋ

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. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:

     the lashings out of his luxur

3. (in the plural, informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     “ […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
       Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […] ”

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     You bring happiness to my heart
     Like a freshly baked apple tart
     With lashings of piping-hot custard

• tongue lashing

lashing

1. present participle and gerund of lash

   the rain was lashing down

• shaling, ashling, Anglish, haglins, Singhal, halsing, Shangli, Ashling