lashing
About 0.65 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
- noun The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
- noun Lots; a great amount.
- verb present participle and gerund of lash
the rain was lashing down
Similar words
flogging whipping flagellation violent poke thrashing beating hail lacing ligation
Often followed by
out the of his and them at rain their
Word family
lashings
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