lashing

lashing
    adj 1: violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at
           the lashing riders"
    n 1: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of
         punishment [syn: {whipping}, {tanning}, {flogging},
         {lashing}, {flagellation}]
    2: rope that is used for fastening something to something else;
       "the boats were held together by lashings"
    

Lasher \Lash"er\, n.
   1. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to
      another; -- called also {lashing}.
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   2. A weir in a river. [Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Lashing \Lash"ing\, n.
   The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation;
   chastisement. --South.
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   {Lashing out}, a striking out; also, extravagance.
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Lashing \Lash"ing\, n.
   See 2d {Lasher}.
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47 Moby Thesaurus words for "lashing":
      adhesive, affixation, annexation, attachment, bastinado, basting,
      battery, beating, belting, binding, bond, buffeting, caning,
      clasping, clubbing, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling,
      drubbing, fastener, fastening, flagellation, flailing, flogging,
      fustigation, girding, hooking, horsewhipping, knot, lacing,
      ligation, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, splice,
      sticking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing,
      tieing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping, zipping