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

Instead people voted with their wallets and not a single person was harmed except maybe some marketing guys getting a tongue lashing. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026

Attendees will explore a variety of types of vertical support structures and learn to tie different rope knots and lashings useful for creating plant support structures for our own garden. — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026

Nevertheless, as befits a film partly backed by Wim Wenders’ Road Movies, this deploys an eclectic soundtrack and lashings of backlighting and magic hour cinematography to help capture the uncanny feeling of being a European stranger in a strange land of enchantment out west. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026

Poor Andy Sachs — in the form of the Disney princess-eyed Anne Hathaway — may have suffered the verbal lashings of a boss who expected whims to move worlds on her behalf. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026

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