lashing

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lash·ing

(lăsh′ĭng)

Something used for securing or binding.

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lashing

(ˈlæʃɪŋ)

1. a whipping; flogging

2. a scolding

3. informal (usually foll by: of) Brit large amounts; lots

lashing

(ˈlæʃɪŋ)

rope, cord, etc, used for binding or securing

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

lash•ing

(ˈlæʃ ɪŋ)

n.

a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.

lashing

See tie down. (DOD only) See restraint of loads.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	lashing - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment flogging, whipping, flagellation, tanning whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, lacing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows self-flagellation - self-punishment inflicted by whipping horsewhipping - the act of whipping with a horsewhip; "that villain needs a good horsewhipping"
	2.	lashing - rope that is used for fastening something to something else; "the boats were held together by lashings" fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place rope - a strong line
Adj.	1.	lashing - violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at the lashing riders" violent - acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike"

lashing

noun

A punishment dealt with blows or lashes:

beating, flogging, hiding, thrashing, whipping.

Informal: trimming.

Slang: licking.

Translations

frustata legatura

lashing

[ˈlæʃɪŋ] N

1. (= beating) → azotes mpl
to give sb a lashing → azotar a algn

2. (= tying) → atadura f (Naut) → trinca f, amarradura f

3. lashings of (esp Brit) → montones de

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lashing

[ˈlæʃɪŋ] n
lashings of (British) [+ cream, butter] → des masses de

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lashing

(= beating) → Prügel pl; (= punishment) → Auspeitschung f

(fig: = criticism) → scharfe Kritik

(= tying) → Verschnürung f; (of prisoner) → Fesseln pl; (Naut) → Tau nt, → Zurring m

lashings pl (inf) → eine Unmenge (inf); lashings of money/cream → eine Unmenge or massenhaft Geld/Schlagsahne (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lashing

[ˈlæʃɪŋ] n

a. (beating) → frustata, sferzata

b. lashings of (Brit) (fam) → un mucchio di, una montagna di

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Perrault scaled it by a miracle, while Francois 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.

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Devil be damned!" he shouted his loudest and most belligerent, as he ruffled like a bravo at the gutter-cat beneath him, so that he sent her crouching, with startlement, lower to the floor, her ears wilting rigidly flat and down, her tail lashing, her head turning about the room so that her eyes might penetrate its obscurest corners in quest of the human whose voice had so cried out.

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Slowly, dully, the creatures rose to their feet and between the tugging of the warrior in front and the lashing of him behind the hopeless band was finally herded within the tower.