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Lash′ing.


Nautical.) A rope or gasket, by which anything is secured on board ship, by wrapping around it.

As the lashing of a studding-sail boom.

The lashing of the parts of a pontonbridge.

The lashing at the head of a shears.

The lashing of a tail-block.

Also the act of binding one thing to another.

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