Lashing
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Lashing can refer to:
- lashing knot, a type of knot.
- A means to secure cargo, for instance: stevedores lash containers to the deck of a ship to prevent them from being swept out to sea in a storm. Such lashing implements can be steel bars that are tightened by turnbuckles.
- In flagellation, the infliction of lashes, i.e. cuts strokes with a painful implement.
- Students may use lashing as a term to describe consumption of alcohol at great speed.