bashingn.
/ˈbaʃɪŋ/ 1. The action of striking so as to dint, bruise, or crush; an instance of this.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > so as to damage surface
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1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming iii. 45 Its hard and crusty Surface, so made by the Weights and Bashings of the heavy Rains.
1921 Public Opinion 21 Jan. 62/2 One would have expected to find a studious cultivation of more scientific methods of bashing.
1956 E. Grierson Second Man ix. 201 Street brawling—what the Aussies call ‘Bashing’.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain iii. 49 The first murder, other than slum-area bashings, that had occurred.
2.
a. A flogging (with the cat-o'-nine-tails).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of
swepinga1300
stripec1485
flagellation1490
whipping1566
whipping-cheer1578
to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580
switchinga1640
horsewhipping1829
rawhiding1848
bashing1877
1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 157 There were the evidences of former floggings, or ‘bashings’, as the prisoners call them.
1898 Daily News 23 Feb. 3/5 I got a bashing as well.—What do you mean by that?—Oh, I had the ‘cat’.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 11 Take, get, a bashing, to suffer heavy losses.
1959 Listener 29 Jan. 219/1 In their 1911 bashing of Mr. Lloyd George the profession far excelled their efforts of 1948.
3. Used in Services' slang to denote any arduous task.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or laboriousness > a difficult or laborious task
travailc1350
labour of Hercules?a1475
task1597
punisher1827
back-breaker1867
bashing1940
1940 Daily Mail 7 Sept. 3/8 Here are some current military phrases, interpreted:..‘Spud-bashing’—Potato peeling.
1942 Horizon VI. 114 C.B. for a cert. Scrubbing, or mebbe a spot of spud bashing.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 56 Square bashing, marching, drilling or walking.
1946 G. Kersh Clean, Bright & Slightly Oiled i. 3 Poor old Gerald done fourteen drills that week, plus a nice basinful of spud-bashing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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ˈbashing
ˈbashing n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes > in coal-mining
outstroke1747
holing1841
coal-cutting1842
patio1845
sumping1849
bottoming1856
salting1856
patio process1862
spragging1865
yardage1877
booming1880
brushing1883
filling1883
sounding1883
yard-work1883
blanketing1884
goafing1888
freezing process1889
power loading1901
bashing1905
rock dusting1915
mucking1918
solid stowing1929
stone-dusting1930
roof bolting1949
rock bolting1955
1905 Daily Chron. 26 June 6/5 A ‘bashing’—a barricade of coal and rubbish.
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