lashingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlæʃɪŋ/
• 韻: -æʃɪŋ

名詞

lashing (countable and uncountable, plural lashings)

1. Something used to tie something or lash it to something.

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

2. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
   • a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:

     the lashings out of his luxur

3. The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
   • (Can we date this quote?), Celine Jeanjean, The Veiled War: A Quirky Steampunk Fantasy Series, Celine Jeanjean:

     [It] came from the sea, that wind, and soon enough, it would bring lashings of rain. The captain opened the door just as the first patters of rain began to fall.

4. (in the plural, informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     “ […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
       Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […] ”

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     You bring happiness to my heart
     Like a freshly baked apple tart
     With lashings of piping-hot custard

派生語

• tongue lashing

動詞

lashing

1. present participle and gerund of lash

   the rain was lashing down

派生語

アナグラム

• shaling, ashling, Anglish, haglins, Singhal, halsing, Shangli, Ashling