1932 Watermeyer & Hoffenberg Witwatersrand Mining Pract. vi. 347 Lashing or shovelling. Except where advantage can be taken of the angle at which an end dips, all the ore is usually loaded into trucks by shovel.

1946 C. B. Jeppe Gold Mining on Witwatersrand i. ix. 688 Such cleaning out was largely done on night shift, some 4 to 6 natives being allocated to each end for lashing and tramming, depending on the distance to be trammed and the supply of cars.

1974 S. Afr. Jrnl. Econ. 42 293 The National Institute for Personnel Research has also demonstrated that even on a simple manual task like lashing (shovelling or loading broken rock) output can be appreciably increased by continuous practice.

14.. Siege Jerusalem 17/304 Was noȝt bot..red laschyng lye [i.e. flame] alle þe londe ouer.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. i. 2 Under a learned (though lashing) Master.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires i. 7 The Lady, next, requires a lashing Line, Who squeez'd a Toad into her Husband's Wine.

1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 28 The lashing Whip resounds.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxv. 45 Bounds with one lashing spring the mighty brute.

1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 196 I wield the flail of the lashing hail.

1827–44 N. P. Willis Elms New Haven 129 The air Below the lashing tree-tops was all black.

1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 198 A certain day of lashing rain in December.

1900 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 379 This lashing sarcasm was undeserved.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 6^v To lash not out too lashingly, for feare of pynching penury.

1839 New Monthly Mag. 56 358 Tripes bawled out, ‘Wo-ho!’—a sound Woodpecker and old Peter willingly obeyed, in spite of Dick's persuasions lashingly applied.