'Lashing' definitions:
Definition of 'lashing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at the lashing riders"
noun
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation]
noun
Rope that is used for fastening something to something else; "the boats were held together by lashings"
Definition of 'Lashing'
From: GCIDE
- Lashing \Lash"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'lashing'
From: GCIDE
- Lasher \Lash"er\, n.
- 1. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A weir in a river. [Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lashing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adhesive,
- affixation,
- annexation,
- attachment,
- bastinado,
- basting,
- battery,
- beating,
- belting,
- binding,
- bond,
- buffeting,
- caning,
- clasping,
- clubbing,
- corporal punishment,
- cowhiding,
- cudgeling,
- drubbing,
- fastener,
- fastening,
- flagellation,
- flailing,
- flogging,
- fustigation,
- girding,
- hooking,
- horsewhipping,
- knot,
- lacing,
- ligation,
- pistol-whipping,
- rawhiding,
- scourging,
- spanking,
- splice,
- sticking,
- strapping,
- stripes,
- swingeing,
- switching,
- thrashing,
- tieing,
- trouncing,
- truncheoning,
- whipping,
- zipping