Lashing

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