lashing

noun

lash·​ing ˈla-shiŋ 

: something used for binding, wrapping, or fastening

Examples of lashing in a Sentence

They gave the sailor a lashing.

She put lashings of butter on her muffin.

Recent Examples on the Web

This isn’t a repeat of Hurricane Irma’s lashing at the concrete marker that led to a month-long closing in September and October 2017 so that the original artists Danny Acosta and Henry Del Valle could do emergency repairs and repaint the battered buoy. —Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025

However, May argued that Trump’s recent public lashings out against Putin appear to be more lasting than those against Zelensky, signaling a wider shift in policy. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025

Will slaves not plow the earth beneath the lashing of their masters in these wastelands of man’s primordial independence? —Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025

Her makeup and hair stuck to the usual Sabrina Carpenter style codes: A big and bouncy blonde blowout, with lashings of black mascara, and rosy pink blush. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1669, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for lashing

• ashing
• bashing
• caching
• cashing
• clashing
• crashing
• dashing
• flashing
• gnashing
• hashing
• mashing
• slashing

Kids Definition

lashing

noun

lash·​ing ˈlash-iŋ 

: something used for tying, wrapping, or fastening