Lashing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something used for securing or binding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
  • n. : plenty of
  • v. Present participle of lash.
  • v. raining heavily.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
  • n. See 2d lasher.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of whipping or flogging; a scourging.
  • n. A rope or cord for binding or making fast one thing to another.
  • n. A profusion or great plenty; a bountiful or unstinted supply: usually in the plural: as, lashings of beer.
  • Lavish.
  • n. plural In mining, planks spiked on the inside of shaft-timbering to hold the frames in place.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. rope that is used for fastening something to something else
  • adj. violently urging on by whipping or flogging
  • n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • Equivalent
    violent   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rope    fixing    holdfast    fastener    fastening   
    Variant
    lasher   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    castigation    chastisement    fastening    gammon    gripes   
    Verb Stem
    lash   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bashing    caching    cashing    clashing    crashing    dashing    flashing    gnashing    hashing    rehashing   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beating    lacing    leash    noose