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Gashing vs Lashing - What's the difference?

gashing | lashing |

As verbs the difference between gashing and lashing

is that gashing is while lashing is .

As nouns the difference between gashing and lashing

is that gashing is the act of making a gash, or cut while lashing is something used to tie something or lash it to something.

gashing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a gash, or cut.
  • * 1821 , Theodore Dehon, Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace
    • Nature prompts to the use of them; for the savage of the woods has the song and the ceremonies of his ancestors, and by the gashings and daubings with which he disfigures his form, denotes his tribe.
  • The roughing operation for worm gears.

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    lashing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
    • The lashings , that were holding the chest to the deck of the storm tossed ship, broke and it went overboard.
  • (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of
    • Lashings of ginger beer
  • The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
    • (South)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Ireland, slang) raining heavily.

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