1. A large number or amount
   "made lashings of new friends";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

1. Beating with a whip, strap or rope as a form of punishment
   "lashing was once a common punishment in the navy";
   - whipping, tanning, flogging, flagellation
    
2. Rope that is used for fastening something to something else
   "the boats were held together by lashings"

Type of: beating, drubbing, fastener, fastening, fixing, hiding [informal], holdfast, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, rope, thrashing

Encyclopedia: Lashings