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lashings

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lash·ings  (lshngz)
pl.n. Chiefly British
Lavish quantities.
[From lash, to lavish (obsolete).]
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Noun1.lashingslashings - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads, piles
large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude


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But the breeze, far from lessening its force, blew as if to bend the mast, which, however, the metallic lashings held firmly.
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Added to the cruel lashings to which these slaves were subjected, they were kept nearly half-starved.
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At the recurring thought, Tara of Helium could feel her whole body burning with scarlet shame and then she went suddenly white and cold with rage; whereupon she turned her flier about so abruptly that she was all but torn from her lashings upon the flat, narrow deck.
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