Synonyms for lashings

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lash-ingz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæʃ ɪŋz

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Définition of lashings

Origin : "a beating, flogging," c.1400, verbal noun from lash (v.1).

As in licking : noun beating
As in thrashing : noun beating

Example sentences :

Once, he roused with a start and hastily got the axe out from underneath the lashings.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Outside, Sucatash was heaving the lashings taut on the last packs.
Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter

It was chancing death, since once out of our lashings we were as exposed as if on a raft.
Extract from : « Youth » by Joseph Conrad

With one unanimous effort we tore the lashings in pieces, and got free.
Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

We do not know how to understand you gentlemen when you speak of lashings.
Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane

He was handicapped as he had been all along by the absence of the vines one could use for lashings.
Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton

Besides this, the canvas was made fast with lashings and ropes to the poles.
Extract from : « The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader » by W.H.G. Kingston

He flourished his clasp-knife and bent and cut the lashings.
Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

In all haste he pulled his clasp-knife and cut the lashings which held the boat in its chocks.
Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

A scuttle-butt was torn from its lashings and went by the board, and other flotsam followed it.
Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

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