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lashing up

lashing up is the present participle and gerund of lash up.

Meaning of lash up

Verb

lash up (third-person singular simple present lashes up, present participle lashing up, simple past and past participle lashed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
    • Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    jury-rig

Questions about lashing up

What is lashing up the present participle and gerund of?
Lashing up is the present participle and gerund of lash up.

Words near lashing up in the dictionary

  1. lashing down
  2. lashing off
  3. lashing oneself to the mast
  4. lashing out
  5. lashing together
  6. lashing up
  7. lashingly
  8. lashings
  9. lashins
  10. Lashio
  11. lashkar

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