[f. LASH v.1 + -ING2.] That lashes.
14[?]. Siege Jerusalem, 17/304. Was noȝt bot … red laschyng lye [i.e., fame] alle þe londe ouer.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., I. 2. Under a learned (though lashing) Master.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, I. (1697), 11. The Lady, next, requires a lashing Line, Who squeez’d a Toad into her Husband’s Wine.
1714. Gay, Trivia, II. 231. The lashing whip resounds.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxv. Bounds with one lashing spring the mighty brute.
1820. Shelley, Cloud, 9. I wield the flail of the lashing hail.
1827–44. Willis, Elms New Haven, 129. The air Below the lashing tree-tops was all black.
1885. R. L. & F. Stevenson, Dynamiter, 198. A certain day of lashing rain in December.
1900. Edinb. Rev., Oct., 379. This lashing sarcasm was undeserved.
Hence Lashingly adv., in a lashing manner; † a. Lavishly. b. By means of the lash or whip.
1573. Tusser, Husb., ix. (1878), 17. To lash not out too lashinglie, for feare of pinching penurie.
1839. New Monthly Mag., LVI. 358. Tripes bawled out, ‘Wo-ho!’—a sound Woodpecker and old Peter willingly obeyed, in spite of Dick’s persuasions lashingly applied.
