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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.  Antonym: unlash.



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"Lashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... not one speck of cloud showed in the sky. Yet all day long, while I tried to work, only to find myself all on edge with expectancy, I could hear the flap and rustle of the American flag on the Custom-House roof, which was straining at its cords and lashing itself into a frenzy like ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
... you have it in mind, I shall probably get it. But I may say I'm not especially anxious for a tongue-lashing to-night." ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... flash of their musket-fire. Saddles were emptied both to the right and left of me, and one of the riderless horses, maddened by a wound in the head, dashed wildly forward, and leaping among the bayonets and lashing out furiously with his hind-legs, opened a way into the square. I was the first man through the gap, and engaged the French colonel in a hand-to-hand combat. At the very moment just as I gave him the point in his throat he cut open my shoulder, my horse, ...
— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall
... the fireplace by driving four sticks into the ground and lashing them together to make ...
— The Eskimo Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... used for this purpose. As soon as one slave was whipped, he was given the whip to whip his brother slave. Very often the lashes would bring blood very soon from the already lacerated skin, but this did not stop the lashing until one had received ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Florida Narratives • Works Projects Administration


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