Lashing
['læʃɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) rope that is used for fastening something to something else; 'the boats were held together by lashings'.
(adj.) violently urging on by whipping or flogging; 'looked at the lashing riders' .
Typist: Margery--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
(n.) See 2d Lasher.
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That night there was a storm and I woke to hear the rain lashing the window-panes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I take Tamburlaine in his chariot for the tremendous course of the world's physical history lashing on the harnessed dynasties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Ronda