Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - lashing

(lashings) 1. Lashings of something means a large quantity or amount of it. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) Serve by cutting the scones in half and spreading with jam and lashings of clotted cream. QUANT: QUANT of n-uncount 2. Lashings are ropes or cables that are used to tie one thing to another. We made a tour of the yacht, checking lashings and emergency gear. N-COUNT: usu pl 3. If you refer to someone’s comments as a lashing, you mean that they are very critical and angry. He never grew used to the lashings he got from the critics. N-COUNT 4. A lashing is a punishment in which a person is hit with a whip. N-COUNT