lashings

/หˆlรฆสƒษชล‹z/

IPA: /L AE1 SH IH0 NG Z/

noun
  1. 1

    Something used to tie something or lash it to something.

    โ€œThe lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.โ€

  2. 2

    (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of

    โ€œLashings of ginger beerโ€

  3. 3

    The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lashing, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lashings