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Fastening, in a way
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lashing
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a beating, flogging," c.1400, verbal noun from lash (v.1).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lashing is an arrangement of rope wire or webbing with linking device used to secure and fasten two or more items together in a somewhat rigid manner. Lashings are most commonly applied to timber poles, and are commonly associated with cargo, containerisation, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lasher \Lash"er\, n. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing . A weir in a river. [Eng.] --Halliwell.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at the lashing riders" n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping , tanning , flogging , flagellation ] rope that is used for fastening something to something ...
Usage examples of lashing.
Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.
Hotter springs, lashing this superstructure with warm water, kept it in a perilous state of plasticity, so that chunks would break off from time to time, to fall clacking to the rock and gradually be washed away.
Manchile snapped the Doozy through a lashing 180-degree turn, applied sand, and blasted up the ramp.
Babette shivered under her shawl, and looked more drearily than ever at the lashing sleet.
He boasted with such ferocity, lashing out with such energy, and sweating so profusely, that his drunkenness soon left him and he had to keep going into the room to replenish his intoxication with bottles of beer.
After retrieving her fardel and lashing it to the saddle, she adjusted the stirrups and mounted.
They whirled and beat, lashing hair and garments, pelting the Farers with leaves and twigs and heads of broken grain, chaff to sting and blind the eyes.
When the last of their animals was clear and stood flinching on the sand with the driving rain lashing at his flanks, Garion turned back to the sluggishly heaving wreck.
The wind blew demonically, lashing the dense ginestra brush that crowded the trail.
While he was down below, Ready had cast off the lashings of the two spars which had formed the sheers, and dragging them forward, had launched them over the gunnel, with lines fast to them, ready for towing on shore.
Abruptly, she grew aware of a thought inside her brain, a sharp, lashing thought from Kier Gray.
I saw Alcuin among them, dark eyes shining, his white hair loosed from its braid, lashing his cheek like sea-foam as he turned his horse so sharply it near sat in its haunches.
The lashings of the sack came loose, and he spilled a girl out onto the mosaicked floor, wrists bound to elbows behind her back, legs doubled tightly against her breasts, the thin cords that held her cutting deeply into her naked flesh.
Dusk came as they waved Pilau back toward the C-47, their prized antique engine lurching against its lashings like a petrified sumo wrestler, Reventio swinging the cargo door wide in anticipation.
The big man moved with astonishing grace as the horse thundered down on him, pivoting, the sword lashing out in the same motion.