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LASHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
Synonyms:
flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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
Example:
the boats were held together by lashings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lashing" is a kind of...):
fastener; fastening; fixing; holdfast (restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place)
rope (a strong line)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Violently urging on by whipping or flogging
Example:
looked at the lashing riders
Classified under:
Similar:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb lash
Context examples:
Charles turned his back and drew the lashings down as well as he could, which was not in the least well.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
One of them I beat over the head with the butt of the whip, so that he dropped the cudgel with which he was about to strike me; then lashing the horse, I shook off the others and got safely away.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Bill cautiously slipped the gun from under the sled-lashing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Lashing the two topmasts together, and making allowance for their unequal length, at the point of intersection I attached the double block of the main throat-halyards.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The huskies had chewed through the sled lashings and canvas coverings.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Daylight was yet three hours away, though it was already six o'clock; and in the darkness Henry went about preparing breakfast, while Bill rolled the blankets and made the sled ready for lashing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Furling the sail and lashing it securely about the mast, boom, sprit, and two pairs of spare oars, I threw it overboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Perrault scaled it by a miracle, while François prayed for just that miracle; and with every thong and sled lashing and the last bit of harness rove into a long rope, the dogs were hoisted, one by one, to the cliff crest.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Each man felt that he had been robbed; and the boats were hoisted in amid curses, which, if curses had power, would have settled Death Larsen for all eternity—Dead and damned for a dozen iv eternities, commented Louis, his eyes twinkling up at me as he rested from hauling taut the lashings of his boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
