or lashins, subs. (common).—Plenty; abundance. Also LASHIN’S AND LAVIN’S—plenty and to spare.

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  1841.  LEVER, Charles O’Malley, lxvii.

        I’d as soon be myself as Lord Mayor,
  With LASHINGS of drink on the table.

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  1850.  F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh, ch. xxii. ‘A taste for, that is, an unbounded admiration of, the sublime and beautiful, as exemplified under the form of—’ ‘Rum punch, and LASHINGS of it,’ chimed in Archer.

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  1855.  THACKERAY, Lyra Hibernica, ‘Mr. Malony’s Account of the Ball.’

        A nate buffet before them set,
  Where LASHINS of good dhrink there was!

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  1892.  MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 18. Men patter in pubs about Jack, over LASHING o’ lugs.

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